Make healthy lifestyle choices to curb diabetes –ministry

The Ministry of Health advised the nation to make healthy lifestyle choices and to know their blood glucose, blood pressure and BMI numbers to stem the prevalence of diabetes, when observances for World Diabetes Day were held last Monday.

In a press release, the ministry said the focus for the period 2009-2013 is diabetes education and prevention and this year’s theme is ‘Act on diabetes. Now.’

Five key messages have been