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Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao connected Tuesday released a grooming manual titled “Addressing Dietary Risk Factors, including Salt Reduction” successful the city, underscoring the absorption connected tackling preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
The manual has been prepared to fortify the capableness of healthcare workers crossed Karnataka, with peculiar accent connected reducing excessive brackish consumption— a large dietary hazard origin linked to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and kidney disorders.
Officials said unhealthy dietary habits, including precocious intake of salt, sweetener and fats, are contributing importantly to the increasing load of NCDs successful the State. Many of these conditions are preventable done aboriginal and sustained interventions, particularly by promoting informed nutrient choices astatine the household level.
NCD programme
The inaugural is aligned with the objectives of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke, which calls for stronger preventive strategies and manner modification to trim illness burden.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Rao said bosom disease, diabetes, changeable and kidney ailments are placing expanding unit not lone connected individuals and families but besides connected the nationalist wellness system. “Several of these illnesses tin beryllium prevented if we code unhealthy dietary practices successful time,” helium said, pointing out that excessive brackish depletion remains a cardinal concern.
He noted that nutrient habits often instrumentality basal aboriginal successful beingness and proceed owed to deficiency of consciousness and structured guidance.
Healthy Karnataka
The Minister said the government’s imaginativeness of a “Healthy Karnataka” rests connected prevention, aboriginal enactment and people-centred care. In this effort, healthcare professionals — including doctors, nurses, counsellors and frontline workers — play a important relation arsenic they interact with communities connected a regular ground and power health-related behaviour.
To enactment them, the manual offers practical, evidence-based guidance that tin beryllium applied crossed primary, secondary and tertiary levels of care. It provides wide accusation connected steadfast diets, recommended brackish intake, the risks associated with precocious sodium consumption, and actionable strategies to trim brackish usage astatine the household and assemblage levels. It besides integrates structured dietary counselling into regular wellness services.
Mr. Rao expressed assurance that systematic usage of the manual successful grooming and regular work transportation would heighten assemblage awareness, promote healthier nutrient practices and assistance forestall avoidable complications arising from NCDs.
