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So, while Evans is right to claim that Australia is among the top two or three countries for official resettlement intake, this does not make Australia one of the more generous countries.
These countries’ high unofficial intake means that they understandably keep their official intake low.
Similarly, mistaken beliefs are often a problem: for example, diabetes is referred to colloquially as “sugar,” and diabetics can erroneously believe that curbing sugar intake is the only thing they need to do.
But for policymakers who accept that there is little downside and significant upside for most people in developed countries to reduce their meat intake, there are plenty of cost-effective solutions to nudge us in that direction.
The American decision to limit the first intake of new members to three can be read as a pre-emptive move to limit the effects of the Senate’s burden-sharing debate.
Two recent studies in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition show that just 50 grams (roughly two ounces) of golden rice can provide 60% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin A. They show that golden rice is even better than spinach in providing vitamin A to children.
In fact, we could avoid the death of at least one million children every year by improving their intake of it.
We must also protect our oceans, which are the source of 16% of the global population’s animal protein intake.
Personal income tax revenue is low in Latin America and the Caribbean, suggesting that there is scope for policy makers to increase the intake so they have more money to distribute to those in need.
Finally, much as Austria-Hungary formed an alliance with Germany to fill a strategic need for military security, EU members have sought, through their intake of Russian gas, to meet a strategic need for energy security.
This matters because the health benefits of adequate vitamin D intake may be even greater than previously thought.
The Institute of Medicine recommends tripling the recommended daily intake of vitamin D for children and adults in the US and Canada, to 600 IU (15 micrograms) per day.
As a doctor, I see women who appear healthy, but who suffer from anemia, owing partly to low iron intake.
If industry responds to the tax by reformulating products and changing its marketing strategy, and if this leads to a reduction in sugar intake in the UK, then the tax will have been a success.
Studies have shown that there is a significant positive association between a higher intake of fruits and vegetables and reduced risk of chronic disease.
As a result, it is still unclear whether dosage, duration of use, or parallel intake of other agents determine differences in their effect.
That is not the case with the cut in the total 2017 intake of all refugees from 110,000 to 50,000, and the suspension of the entire refugee resettlement program for four months.
Incentives to make regular migration pathways work better will include immediately increasing Australia’s annual humanitarian intake, and doubling it over five years (to 27,000), while also doubling financial support for regional immigration capacity-building.
Through irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250% between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world’s poorest people and averting severe famines.
If admission had been based solely on academic performance, Harvard’s intake would have been 43% Asian-American.
That means that the exam scores of students who go to the best schools should be discounted to whatever extent will achieve the most scholastically able intake.
WHO recommends an even lower salt intake for children aged 2-15, depending on their energy needs.
High salt intake has contributed to a global increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – the leading cause of premature death in the twenty-first century.
With this in mind, WHO has established a 30% relative reduction in the world’s salt intake by 2025 as a target in its global action plan to support governments’ efforts to eliminate avoidable NCDs.
It is up to them to adopt a few simple strategies to reduce salt intake and improve children’s chances at long, healthy lives.
Likewise, Swedish intake centers for victims of male violence are woefully underfunded – like all support services for rape and abuse victims across Europe and North America – leaving many women who face threats to their safety and that of their children waiting for unavailable places in shelters.
To kick-start its efforts, early last year the WHO halved its recommendation for sugar consumption from 10% of adult daily caloric intake to 5%, despite considerable resistance from corporate vested interests and the governments that support them.
Indeed, five of the 10 leading causes of death worldwide are related to diet and physical activity: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, low intake of fruit and vegetables, high body mass index, and insufficient exercise.
The strongest critique has come from sugar associations, who claim that the upper limit of 10% on caloric intake from sugar is not based upon scientific evidence.
However, more than twenty national and international reports from around the world by scientific bodies governing dietary recommendations set similar or lower targets for sugar intake.
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