![Participants at the launch of the five - day Wellness Warriors training module. [GINA Photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.inewsguyana.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Wellness-warriors.jpg)
According to Health Minister, Dr Bheri Ramsaran, “Over the past seven years, many countries and international organisations have identified the epidemic of NCDs as the most serious emerging public health threat.”
Cigarette smoking and second hand smoking, alcohol abuse, wrong foods [poor diet] and too much salt [which the Minister referred to as white death] and lack of exercise are the factors accountable for the rapid increase in NCDs.
He also addressed the reshaping of the market to address healthy foods. He looked at the possibility of intervening in the school canteens to determine a stricter and more regulated diet for children and to add an environmental component, suggested foods can be placed in a recyclable and biodegradable box.
“We hope to get a massive army of people who know to perform basic tasks, example pressure and sugar testing in every part of the society. Also, they will have a strong health literacy component,” the Minister explained.
![Health Minister, Dr Bheri Ramsaran. [iNews' Photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.inewsguyana.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Bheri.jpg)
He explained that a coordinator of NCDs has been appointed and a small NCD unit will be established within the Ministry of Health. Also the issue of teenage pregnancy will be targeted along with, promoting healthy choices and health literacy in schools by the Wellness Warriors. On September 13 a Wellness Camp will be held at the Square of the Revolution.
[Extracted and modified from GINA]
By starving them to death. This is BULLSHIT! I would like to see the so-call leaders in Guyana come up with an original idea. Every frigging day the news have you copying some BS from the the United States, don’t be fooled, most of that stuff is “fodder” you do not have the population that the US has; Guyanese can hardly afford the basics, and you’re proposing what? The food in Guyana is not processed as it is here, so cut the crap and go back to the “drawing board” and come up wit your own ideas.