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Diabetes-Significant Role In Premature Deaths

February 10, 2012

Diabetes is a major non-communicable disease and is on the rise globally, 346 million people worldwide have the disease. Eighty percent of these people occur in low and miiddle income countries.

The World Health Organization (WH0) projects that the number of deaths due to diabetes will double between 2005 and 2030.

Fifty percent of people with diabetes will die of cardiovascular disease, this makes diabetes a significant cause of deaths form heart disease or stroke.

In a recent study, researchers found that diabetes plays a significant role in premature deaths from many other diseases.

Diabetes was moderately associated with many cancers including breast, liver and lung.

For the study researchers compared people without diabetes and people with diabetes. They established the hazard ratios for:
1-Death from any cause
2-Death from cancer
3-Death from vascular disease
4-Death from other causes

The study found that diabetes was associated with death from renal disease, pneumonia, infectious diseases and many others.

The risk factors for diabetes are:

Unhealthy eating
physical inactivity
Overweight/obesity
Family history of diabetes

Read about the resarch study

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator. Posted In : research report

What Is Cancer?

February 6, 2012

Cancer is a non-communicable disease (NCD), it is a malignant growth of abnormal cells that form masses.

Cancer have the ability to invade other tissues and form secondary tumors called metastases.

Throughout life most cells in the body grow, multiply and replace themselves. During this process errors or changes called mutations occur. Whereas in normal cells growth and development are controlled, in cancerous cells when certain mutations occur, cells become abnormal and continue to grow l...

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator. Posted In : cancer

A Tutorial On Healthy Eating

January 27, 2012

Good nutrition is important for a healthy lifestyle, to prevent diseases, to protect health, to promote speedier recovery from illnesses and to boost our immune system.

This tutorial will provide consumers with the basic knowledge required for healthy eating.
It will enable them to make changes and modiy their diet for a healthier eating pattern.

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Good eating habits need not be expensive, nor healthy meals difficult to prepare.

Quite often; however, nutritious meals are associated with a large ...
Continue reading...

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator. Posted In : healthy eating

Internet Workers Job-Related Illnesses

January 24, 2012

A new study has disclosed the costs of job-related illnesses; their costs exceed the cost of non-communicable diseases (NCD's) such as cancer, diabetes and strokes.

In the report, experts say that occupational health is not getting the attention it deserves. The health risks are high given most people between the age of 22 and 65 spend 45% of their waking hours at work.

For Internet workers who spend 12 hours a day on the computer and get about 7 hours sleep per 24 hours, this is about 2/3 of t...

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator. Posted In : workplace wellness

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