While this is a news item about Jakarta, it could well be about the youth of Mumbai, Delhi, Singapore..
Nurul Ratna Manikam, a Clinical nutritionist at Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital in Central Jakarta, said that most of her young patients worked an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift and spent their mornings and nights commuting to and from their offices. They also spend most of their time sitting on a chair behind their desks or standing inside a bus or train and did not have time to work out, she said.
“By the time they get home, they sleep. They also use the weekends to have quality time with their family and rest. They are too tired to work out,” Nurul told The Jakarta Post.
This unhealthy lifestyle was prone to causing type 2 diabetes, since that form of the disease is mainly developed because of poor diet and lack of physical activities, Nurul said.
“In Jakarta, aside from the lack of physical activities, we also have a habit of consuming sweet food and beverages and too many carbohydrates. For example, during office meetings, we are served with sweet tea and sweet bread, along with various starchy foods. These are actually the kinds of things that we must minimize in terms of consumption in order to avoid diabetes,” she said.
Diabetes, Nurul said, could lead to various chronic and fatal diseases, such as stroke, sudden heart attack, kidney failure and hypertension, among others.
