28th October 2010
Life styles diseases on the rise in B’ville
By Maria Laukai

Lifestyle diseases are on the rise in the region of Bougainville. That’s according to a research done by Bougainville Health division and four experts from Australia.

The research done in 2009 reveals a good number of public servants in the Bougainville administration will face attacks from various lifestyle diseases.

The findings were revealed by Dr Joe Vilosi, who was a member of the research team. The main types of life style diseases are high blood pressure and diabetes.

Lifestyle diseases are self-inflicted with the consumption of imported food products and the ignorant practice of harmful westernized behaviors.

Those living in the urban centers were as the next to be affected.

He says high income leads people to spend recklessly on factory made products that attract all forms of lifestyle diseases. Two villages in the region have high intake of sugar and also faced with the dilemma.

The government is urged to use the findings to tackle the disease.