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Just Food: While trans fats occur in small quantities naturally in meat and dairy products, the use of industrially-produced or artificial trans fats in processed foods greatly increased the presence of trans fats in the food supply and thereby their impact on human health.

Devex : In Uruguay’s capital city, the government has been waging war against high sodium consumption.

BioSpace: In 2014, an outbreak of the hemorrhagic Ebola virus swept across six African countries and killed more than 11,300 people. Tom Frieden, the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the outbreak “the world’s first Ebola epidemic” that was “spiraling out of control.”

Devex: A powerhouse cast of United Nations, civil society, and academic leaders have come together to call for bold, practical action to reduce the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.

The Guardian : Lax laws and the farm economy structure allows teens to work the fields, and laborers say they see ‘no alternative.’

The Guardian: Investigations at Human Rights Watch show how widely child labour is used worldwide – but Brazil sets a better example.

The Guardian: Industry and government have made steps to tackle child labor in Mexico’s tobacco fields, but low incomes for working families slow progress.