Allama Iqbal Open University.
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Experts from home and abroad underlined the need for promoting healthy lifestyle at the moot arranged by the university’s department of Home and Health Sciences.
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The conference was held to deliberate upon society-related issues, with special reference to UN sustainable development goals. Its main motto was ‘go green, get healthy’. Dr Sania Nishtar, Co-Chair of the High-Level Commission on Non-Communicable diseases, highlighted the problems, like malnutrition and undernutrition, being faced by the society. Air pollution also leaves a very negative impact on the human-health, she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2018.
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