IT IS NOT ALWAYS what you eat but how much of it you eat, diabetes activists say.
Noreen Merritt, the president of the Diabetes Association of Barbados, said that many Barbadians, once they had settled on a particular food favourite, tended to overindulge on the item and live sedentary lives.
“Barbados boasts of a high level of centenarians and when you speak to them they actually eat everything we are [forbidden] to eat but you know what they were active. The things that they did [activities] burnt the energy for them,” she told a news conference on Wednesday.
Merritt encouraged everyone to focus on eating healthily and in moderation and to be active, more so than thinking about chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
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