#DontLetDietBeatUs Know your Diabetes status!
Diabetes is a disease that can affect anyone, even people who don’t have a family history of it. Where are you on the diabetes scale? The Global Picture More than 500 million globally have diabetes. According to the International Diabetes Federation; Diabetes in Ghana As the diabetes awareness month of November progresses, Meatless Monday Ghana […]
Thursday November 14 is World Diabetes Day: Let’s continue to work against Diabetes!
The World Health Organization estimates that one in 10 adults worldwide have diabetes and over 90% have Type 2diabetes. On the African continent, 24 million adults are known to be living with diabetes, with that number predicted to swell by 129% to 55 million by 2045. In Ghana, there are about 2.4 million people living […]
Breast Cancer: The risk factors for Men and Women- Go slow on meat and fat
The International Agency on Cancer Research Global Cancer Observatory in June 2021 reported that breast cancer accounted for 31.8% of cancer incidence in Ghana. This certainly is not good for a country already burdened with various forms of communicable and non-communicable illnesses.Meatless Monday Ghana therefore joins the chorus of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month of […]
Meatless Monday and making your meals nutritionally adequate
This week, Meatless Monday Ghana takes readers back to the basics of healthy eating for healthy living and attempts to answer asks the question, why the practice of MM recommends nutritionally adequate meals for all practitioners. A Nutritionally Adequate Meal. A nutritionally adequate meal is essential for promoting overall health and well-being. Balanced or nutritionally […]
Keeping Your Heart Healthy
Some Practical Things to Do “Use Heart for Action” World Heart Month 2024 draws a close today Monday September 30 but our hearts must continue to be active to keep us alive. Meatless Monday Ghana therefore brings to readers some practical things we must be doing to preserve the health of our hearts. Did you […]
World Heart Month is September
THEME FOR 2024 USE HEART FOR ACTION THEME FOR 2024USE HEART FOR ACTIONDebunk these Myths about Heart Health and live Health As we cross in to the second half of the month of September, World Heart Month, Meatless Monday Ghana brings to readers four known myths about heart health. These myths have been debunked by […]
The Meatless Monday Public Health Initiative
MEATLESS MONDAY GHANA Some Selected Key Activities The Young Peoples Program Introducing Meatless Monday to the Dean and Student Leadership of the University of Ghana MM Implementation Coordinating Team formed at KNUST: Institutions Getting Engaged on Meatless Monday in Ghana Public Sector Civil Society Corporate Institutions Professional Bodies Religious Bodies Engagement of the hospitality industry […]