Sometimes, food can look good and still make you sick.
Harmful germs and chemicals can hide in everyday foods such as:
🍗 Meat, seafood, milk and cheese
🥬 Unwashed fruit and vegetables
🐟 Fish and seafood
🌾 Rice and grains
🚰 Drinking water
You can reduce your risk of illness by:
✅ Cooking meat all the way through
✅ Washing fruit and vegetable with safe water
✅ Keeping food at safe temperatures
✅ Eating a varied diet
✅ Choosing smaller fish over large ones
🆕 WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases 2000–2021: 2026 edition https://t.co/QkABMWQzjA
Tobacco and nicotine companies deliberately design their products to hook you.
Sugars, flavours, and cooling agents all mask the harshness of nicotine so you inhale more, and get addicted faster.
But the grip of addiction can be broken. And the benefits are felt almost immediately:
⏱️ In 20 minutes, your heart rate drops
🫁 2–12 weeks, your lung function improves
❤️ In 1 year, heart disease risk is cut in half
Take the next step, break the addiction. Help is available! 👉 https://t.co/0r9hCWMfUd
#TobaccoExposed #WorldNoTobaccoDay
Extreme heat can make us seriously ill. 🥵
Simple steps like wearing light-coloured and loose-fitting clothes can help your body stay cooler during #heatwaves.
#BeatTheHeat#HeatwaveSafety#HeatHealth
Quitting tobacco has immediate and long-term benefits for your health. Every step away from smoking helps your body heal.
⏱️ 20 minutes: Heart rate drops
🫁 12 hours: Carbon monoxide levels return to normal
❤️ 2 weeks–3 months: Lung function improves and heart attack risk begins to fall
It’s never too late to quit.
#CommitToQuit #TobaccoFree #QuitSmoking #NoTobacco
Ebola is a terrible disease because you often catch it while caring for someone you love – a husband, a child, a mother.
Stopping transmission means helping communities recognize symptoms early, access testing quickly and get timely care.
Brazil helped build one of the world’s strongest tobacco control movements.
Now cities like Rio de Janeiro are fighting the next battle: stopping vaping from renormalising nicotine addiction.
➡️Hundreds of inspections.
➡️Stronger laws.
➡️Vape-free public spaces.
➡️Public awareness campaigns.
#Cities4Health