It is achievable. We want to stop people dying at an early age, prematurely and painfully, from a preventable condition.
All governments must be prepared to deal with the infectious diseases because they could be overwhelming this year or next year, but the long-term problem is with the chronic diseases.
Approximately 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40 percent of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.
There is a very pervasive misunderstanding that chronic diseases affect only wealthy men in wealthy countries.
This is a preventable epidemic, ... We know what to do, we know how to do it, preventions are very cheap.
We can stop this global epidemic of chronic diseases if we take preventative action now. We estimate that 388 million people in the world are expected to die from chronic diseases in the world in the next 10 years, and everywhere the poor are the hardest hit.
The real tragedy is that overweight and obesity, and their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable.
This is a preventable epidemic.
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