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THEY say Singapore is a ‘fine’ city and we hope Port Moresby will one day be known as the ‘fine’ city also. When we say fine, we refer to money paid to superior authority, usually governmental authority, as a punishment for a crime of other offences.
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AND we stumbled on an article about rioting in Singapore and hope one day, our good Port Moresby city will go down that path. Rioting in Singapore is punishable by law for up to seven years in prison plus caning. We will spare no effort to identify the culprits and deal with them with the full force of the law.
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PAPUA New Guineans have allowed imported processed foods to dominate their diets with serious consequences, especially of obesity and increasing rates of fatalities from lifestyle diseases. Restaurants and food outlets have become a way of life for many people and especially those in the workforce.  The waist belts of the increasing number of the country’s workforce, in both the public and private sector, are expanding without control due to bad eating habits and no exercise at all.
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AND what’s more interesting … many people know the harmful effects of eating too much processed food, abuse of alcohol and smoking but are still intent on living a dangerous lifestyle.  This is so dangerous that it puts a burden on the health system because lifestyle diseases, also known as non-communicable diseases (NCDs), are now are burden to health systems.
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ACCORDING to a WHO fact sheet, NCDs (cardiovascular diseases, diabetics, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases) are leading causes of death and disabilities in almost all countries. Worst affected are the low or middle income countries with cash-strapped health systems that are unable to cope with the deluge of cases.
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WE still have drivers who show they are either blind or illiterate and continue to make the U-turn just in front of the new city hall despite a big sign board placed there. And it doesn’t help if those who are supposed to uphold the law make that not-allowed turn.
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FOUND this interesting to share that healthy youths are highly productive thus the burden in the society will be reduced. Youth is categorised as a person between 10 and 19 years of age. Youths carry the highest risks of morbidity and mortality from accidents, injuries, early pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
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LIFESTYLES such as smoking, risky sexual behaviour, alcohol and drug dependency have their ways to direct other energy to high risk behaviour.
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QUOTE of the day:  Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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