{"id":18380,"date":"2024-02-15T06:12:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T06:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18380"},"modified":"2024-02-15T06:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T06:12:36","slug":"most-afghans-suffer-from-various-diseases-due-to-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/most-afghans-suffer-from-various-diseases-due-to-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Afghans suffer from various diseases due to food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Consumption of low-quality foods causes most Afghan citizens to suffer from various diseases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least four million people in Afghanistan are grappling with the malnutrition due to a lack of food security, which has been a serious challenge in the country for years.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Bari Omar, head of Afghanistan\u2019s National Food and Drugs Administration (AFDA), says, &#8220;In Afghanistan, three million children and one million women suffer from malnutrition. One of the main causes for it is food insecurity in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the AFDA add that six laboratories have been built by this administration to register healthy foods, which soon will be put into operation in Kabul and other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Fahim Mansour, head of the Quality Assurance Department of the AFDA, says, &#8220;People should pay attention to the date of what they buy from the shops, also, the appearance of low-quality foods changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the United Nations World Food Program stated that Afghanistan is the eighth country in the world in terms of food security.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Consumption of low-quality foods causes most Afghan citizens to suffer from various diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,218,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-health","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":59,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18384,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380\/revisions\/18384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}