Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 15
By Rahim Zamanov - Trend:
Nearly a half of Iranians are overweight.
Iran's Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Qazizadeh Hasehmi warned against a high rate of cooking oil consumption per capita in the country, Iran's IRIB News Agency reported on October 15.
"Iran's cooking oil consumption per capita is around 3 kilograms," he said.
"The health ministry plans to decrease the figure in a three-year period," Hashemi noted.
He further added that Iranians' salt consumption is also 2.5 times more than the global average.
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