Risk factors of Non-communicable diseases and Cancer

Factors that affect your health:

• Balanced diet is improtant.
• Life situation, your access to medical treatment, access to healthy food.
• High stress levels can cause problems.

Lifestyle, enviroment,who you interact with arew all factors that increase your chance of getting a disease.

Direct risk factors will directly result in health problems:

• Smoking----- Cardiovascular disease, Lung cancer, lung disease, damages walls of arteries and cells.
• Obesity----- Type 2 diabetes (makes the body less resistant to insulin meaning body struggles to control the concentration of blood glucose.
• Alcohol------ Liver disease, Liver cells are damaged…