In the last few months, I have come to know a couple of friends now being maintained on hypertension medicines. “Lifestyle acquired disease,” says one friend who wants to wean off medicines in the next three months as she does not want to take those forever.

Statistically speaking, the DoH website shares that four major non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, COPD and diabetes mellitus are part of the leading causes of mortality in the Philippines. Much of this is due to the lifestyle that many of us lead.

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