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00:09 - Diabetes continues to be the leading chronic disease
00:16 that affects people globally.
00:18 Its prevalence has been on the increase more so
00:21 in middle and low income countries.
00:23 On TV6's morning edition, Dr. Fuad Khan,
00:27 a former minister of health said,
00:29 "Many people in TNT usually put their health
00:32 on the back burner when they do not see anything
00:34 physically wrong with them."
00:36 He said, "People in general need to understand
00:39 the difference between communicable
00:41 and non-communicable diseases."
00:43 - Communicable diseases,
00:45 what that, when you cough on somebody, let's say,
00:49 you get tuberculosis.
00:51 That's a communicable disease.
00:53 Dengue is a communicable disease.
00:56 It could communicate between people.
00:58 You could get, it can spread like that through,
01:02 in other words, communicate and disease spread,
01:06 go hand in hand.
01:08 Now, a non-communicable disease is something
01:12 that is not spread from person to person,
01:16 but it can be spread by genetics and other factors.
01:21 You could be born with genes
01:23 that cause the disease to occur.
01:27 Let us take diabetes.
01:30 Diabetes, hypertension, cardiac diseases,
01:34 kidney diseases, and cancers
01:39 tend to be form part of the spectra
01:41 of non-communicable disease.
01:44 - Dr. Khan said, "Obesity and diabetes work hand in hand,
01:49 and diabetes is one of four major non-communicable diseases."
01:53 He explained that diabetes occurs
01:56 when the pancreas is no longer able to make insulin,
02:00 or when the body cannot make good use
02:02 of the insulin it produces.
02:04 Dr. Khan advised people with diabetes
02:07 to be mindful of the foods they consume.
02:10 - Lifestyle diseases, such as when you eat the wrong foods,
02:15 you can burn out your pancreas
02:18 by producing spikes of sugar
02:22 towards the pancreas.
02:24 It keeps producing insulin based on what you're eating,
02:29 and as a result of that insulin swing,
02:32 you could end up now having
02:34 what they call insulin resistance and obesity.
02:39 High sugar is diabetes.
02:42 High salt is hypertension.
02:45 But a majority of these factors
02:48 are what they call genetic factors.
02:50 - He said, "If people allow these diseases
02:53 to take over their bodies,
02:55 they can end up with complications
02:57 from these lifestyle diseases."
02:59 Sharla Kisto with tonight's HealthWatch.
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