10 million lives saved and 45 million TB cases avoided with Stop TB Partnership 5-year investment plan
The world is losing its battle with tuberculosis (TB), which is now the biggest infectious killer globally, causing 1.5 million deaths every year.
November 20, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: biggest, biggest-infectious, losing-its, million-deaths, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, tuberculosis
Boosting the immune system with vitamin A may help in the fight against tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a major global problem, affecting 2 billion people worldwide and causing an estimated 2 million deaths annually. Western countries are once again tackling the disease, with recent outbreaks in Los Angeles and London.
February 27, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: angeles, billion-people, disease, major-global, million-deaths, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, tackling-the-disease, tuberculosis
Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer…
February 2, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annually-worldwide, from-non-communicable, global-obesity, heart-disease, million-deaths, new-report, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, protect-public, ucsf
