MEATLESS MONDAY GHANA EARTH DAYNEWSLETTER April 2025

Our Power Our Planet Earth Day and for that matter Earth Month April is a call-to-action, an urgent reminder that thefate and future of our planet is within our control. The 2025 theme, “Our Power Our Planet”emphasizes the need to harness our collective power to protect the planet. Greenhouse gas emissions have reached dangerous levels, […]

April 7, 2025 is World Health DayMaternal and newborn health and survival is the Focus!

THEME: Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures Monday April 7 is World Health Day and its the day that kicks off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. As the theme suggests Healthy beginnings and hopeful futures will be achieved if governments and the health community step up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, […]

Living Healthy in Diabetic Management – Eat Right and get on Moving!

Living healthy in diabetic management requires prioritizing blood sugar and weight management at all times. For every diabetic person, vegetables offer antioxidants that help keep health complications at bay, and non-starchy sources such as broccoli, spinach, cabbage, okro and cocoyam leaves (kontonmire) are diabetes-friendly veggies because they are low in starch. Meatless Monday Ghana concludes […]

#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 […]

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 […]