The National 2 November 2020 Letter to the editor - Misack Ruri UPNG
Lifestyle disease is linked with the way people live their lives. In Papua New Guinea lifestyle diseases affect everyone in urban and rural areas. Lifestyle diseases are non-communicable.
They are caused by a lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating, alcohol consumption, drugs abuse, and smoking which lead to heart disease, stroke, obesity, type 2 diabetes and lung cancer.
And diseases that increase in frequency as countries become more industrialized can include Alzheimer's Disease, arthritis, atheroschlerosis, cancer, obstructive pulmonary disease, colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.
There are also type 2 diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, cronic kidney failure, osteoporosis, polycystic ovarian disease, stroke, depression, dementia and vascular dementia.
Children and adults who are addicted to eating junk food and fatty food with no exercise are prone to lifestyle diseases.
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