Healthy Lifestyles Promote Graceful Ageing

Dr Chris Adomako, a Sport Medicine Physician at Trust Hospital in Accra on Tuesday said a healthy lifestyle and regular exercises would ensure one growing gracefully in old age. He said those who take good care of themselves while growing stood the chance of restraining the debilitating effects of diseases associated with ageing. Dr Adomako made the observation when speaking at a lecture on: “Ageing and Its Associate Diseases,” as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of Retired SSNIT Staff Association (RESSA) in Accra. He called for regular medical check-up, saying early diagnosis and treatment were key in the fight against diseases. Dr Adomako said cancer was the result of unregulated cell division which was not supposed to be and in the worst cases, left the area in which they occurred and spread to other parts of the body. He said although not all cancers shared exactly the same steps, there were some general features that were shared in the development of many types of the disease. Dr Adomako touched on breast, prostate, colon, bladder, cervical, uterus, stomach, gastric and liver cancers and noted that despite their debilitating effects early diagnosis was apt.

Source: GNA