Letter to Editor

Authors

• Azizollaah Zargaraan ¹
• Rassoul Dinarvand ²
• Hedayat Hosseini ³

¹ Department of Food and Nutrition Policy and Planning Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

² Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

³ Department of Food Science and Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran

Abstract

The latest official report on the risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Iran (2014) reveals that NCDs are accounted for 76% of total deaths in the country, of which, an estimated 46% is due to coronary heart disease and cardiovascular diseases (1). It is believed that obesity and being overweight are themain risk factors for NCDs. The most likely causes of being overweight and obesity are low physical activity and imbalanced intake of different food groups (2).