Promote a healthy lifestyle - GUS

He noted that as economies develop and societies meet their needs for sanitation and for maternal and child health services, life expectancy increases and lifestyles associated with injury and chronic diseases tend to become more frequent.

Speaking at the handover of the Barloworld Motors sponsored car to the Heart Foundation of Botswana on Tuesday, Matlhabaphiri said that changes made in dietary consumption of fats and alcohol, increase obesity, increase smoking and decrease in physical activity pose risk to chronic diseases, which manifest themselves at a later age.