{"id":20395,"date":"2022-05-20T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat"},"modified":"2022-05-20T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:28:40","slug":"doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat","title":{"rendered":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span> Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oils they take in a day to reduce health risks and complications.<\/p>\n<p>He said while oils and fats were essential in regulating hormones, maintaining body temperature, source of energy, fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, too much oil could cause some health problems.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Harvoh gave the advice in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Tamale to educate the public on unhealthy fats, which mostly led to health complications such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart attacks, stroke amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>He said, too much fats, especially those from animal products raised the level of low-density lipoproteins, which mostly caused unhealthy fats leading to health complications and diseases.<\/p>\n<p>He advised citizens to eat unsaturated fats found in avocados, canola oil, nuts, olive oil and peanut oil, which could help lower cholesterol levels in the body.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Harvoh advised citizens to eat fewer fatty foods and consume more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, plant-based protein, lean animal proteins and fish to stay healthy, and prevent contracting diseases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oils they take in a day to reduce health risks and complications. He said while oils and fats were essential in regulating hormones, maintaining body temperature, source of energy, fat soluble vitamins A, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[5092,5096,625,8794,429],"class_list":["post-20395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-doctor","tag-fat","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oil ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oil ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-20T13:08:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-20T13:28:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-20T13:08:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-20T13:28:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\"},\"wordCount\":211,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"doctor\",\"fat\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\",\"name\":\"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat - Ghana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-20T13:08:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-20T13:28:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oil ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/\",\"name\":\"Ghana\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat - Ghana","description":"Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oil ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat","og_description":"Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oil ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat","og_site_name":"Ghana","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-05-20T13:08:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-05-20T13:28:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat","datePublished":"2022-05-20T13:08:37+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-20T13:28:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat"},"wordCount":211,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Ghana","doctor","fat","ghana"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","miscellaneous"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat","name":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat - Ghana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-20T13:08:37+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-20T13:28:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Dr Enoch Harvoh, Medical Officer at Tamale Teaching Hospital has advised citizens to regulate the amount of fat and oil ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2022\/05\/img-6287976dce918.jpg","width":720,"height":480,"caption":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/doctor-advises-the-public-to-regulate-intake-of-oils-and-fat#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Doctor advises the public to regulate intake of oils and fat"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/","name":"Ghana","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}