World Consumer Rights Day 2009 ( Supermarket Sweep)

Date: 14 March 2009
Venue: Giant Kota Damansara
Time: 9:30am
Organised by FOMCA

Fomca official Paul Selva Raj said obesity had tripled from four per cent to 14 per cent among those aged 30 and above in the last 10 years because of the consumption of unhealthy food.

Quoting the 2006 National Health and Morbidity Survey, which is conducted once in 10 years, he said the number of people suffering from diabetes rose from 8.3 per cent in 1996 to 14.9 per cent in 2006, whereas the number of people with hypertension rose from 29.9 per cent to 42.6 per cent in the same period.

At a supermarket sweep organised by Fomca at the Giant hypermarket in Kota Daman-sara yesterday, Paul called on the authorities to break the cycle of disease and junk food consumption.

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