SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS (SDA) are hoping to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through their tertiary education programmes.
Director of the University of Southern Caribbean Barbados Campus, George Greaves, says there is a link between healthy lifestyles and their religious denomination.
He pointed to a study done by the Loma Linda University in California which said that Adventists lived four to seven years longer than other citizens in the United States.
“It’s not so much that we don’t eat pork or we don’t drink [certain beverages], because we are more than that. We believe that what goes into our body should contribute to our being able to be healthy, live as long as we possibly can, so that we are now able to do the most for the community and reduce the cost on the monies that governments would have to spend on us when we are in old age,” he said. (TSG)
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