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Caribbean Wellness Month launched
More importance is being placed on promoting healthy lifestyles throughout the world, under the theme “Love that Body: Love Life, Stay Healthy, Live Long,” and quite appropriately “Caribbean Wellness Month 2012” was launched at the Ministry of Health, Brickdam yesterday.
Renee Franklin (left) and Roubinder Rambanam at yesterday’s launching.
This year, the speakers were Ms. Renee Franklin, Senior Project Officer of Health Sector Development at CARICOM and Mr. Roubinder Rambanam, a manager at the Ministry of Health.
Caribbean Wellness Day will be celebrated on September 8 throughout the region. On the occasion, the various territories will showcase national and community level activities to promote healthy living and encourage residents to develop good health practices.
Among the activities planned for that day will be the introduction of smoke-free environments to provide opportunities and safe spaces for physical activity and healthy eating.
According to Ms. Franklin, the whole idea of the Caribbean Wellness Day is to promote the need for a simple lifestyle, to increase physical activities, encourage persons to quit smoking, and to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.
On Wellness Day, persons will be educated on chronic diseases.
Franklin said that alcohol, tobacco, poor diet and harmful use of alcohol are the reasons for the four leading causes of chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
Wellness Day in Guyana will start off with a walk, which commences from 06:15hrs at the CARICOM headquarters and conclude at the National Park where there will be an aerobic session for those who participated in the walk.
Following that exercise, the Minister of Health and representatives from CARICOM will declare open Wellness Week, which is slated for September 16-21.
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