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The Health Promotion Board's Healthier Choice symbol highlights healthier food options, including those with lower levels of sugar, but there is a need for a concerted nationwide campaign to show the excessive amount of empty calories consumed daily from sugar-sweetened beverages.
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Teo Yik Ying
Malnutrition is a problem often perceived to be linked to food shortages, but many people do not realise that it can also be caused by excessive consumption of empty calories, such as from sugar.
While close to one billion people across Asia face the threat of food shortage, twice as many are overweight or obese.
