Friday, February 1, 2008
The New African Killer
Diabetes. Remember the lovely diet I've been placed on? I guess now that Africans are living longer, it's catching up to them. One of the volunteers is working in the hospital and saw 3 guys in a row yesterday for it. Someone said that's it's been projected that in 4 years more Africans will be dying of complications from diabetes that anything else. Scary, huh? Good think I'm only here for 5 weeks...
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Sad. Just following right in the footsteps of America.
Jenna, I was thinking the same thing! Sometimes trying to be like "the land of the free and home of the high cholesterol" just doesn't work out!
I was at a friend's house today and she was telling me about her daughter who spent 3 months in Accra a couple years ago. By the time she got home, about half of her hair had fallen out. She said she attributed it to never getting any protein.
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