The National Institute of Nutrition of the Ministry of Health and Population confirmed that “noodles” or instant noodles are ready-to-eat foods with high starch content that are frequently consumed by children and young adults, leading to weight gain, which results in obesity and other chronic diseases such as sugar, pressure, and heart..
The National Institute of Nutrition at the Ministry of Health pointed out that children’s eating of instant noodles as a meal reduces their intake of useful and needed foods such as vegetables, fruits and dairy products..
The National Institute of Nutrition added on what was reported about the fact that instant noodles cause nerve atrophy due to monosodium glutamate, which is used to add flavor in many processed foods, and there are so-called safe use for them and there are no studies that have proven that they cause nerve atrophy in children.
A 9-year-old had died from high blood pressure and died instantly, while eating a “noodles of rapid preparation” in one of the villages of the Mahalla Center in Gharbia Governorate, and his father’s attempt to assist him and transfer him to Al-Mahalla General Hospital was unsuccessful as the child died before entering To the hospital .
Major General Mahmoud Hamza, Director of Gharbia Security, received a notification from Brigadier Mahmoud Kiosk, the commander of the Mahalla Center, stating that the center received a signal from the Mahalla General Hospital stating that a child named “Ahmed A.F.” 9 years old arrived a dead body of the hospital, a force moved from the center to the hospital and signed the checkup The child’s medical doctor, with the knowledge of hospital doctors, found that the cause of death was high blood pressure, and by asking his father he decided that his son was eating a noodles meal, he was surprised by his loss of consciousness and his death before being transferred to the hospital, and legal measures were taken regarding the incident, and the Public Prosecution was notified.
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