'DiabetEASE' celebrates 5th year

MANILA, Philippines - The DiabetEASE magazine has been a source of information on diabetes for five years, and to celebrate its fifth anniversary, it is conducting an event dubbed “The Sweeter Escape” at the Market! Market! Activity Center on Nov. 15-16.

A sequel to last year’s highly successful “The Sweet Escape,” this whole-day event will feature various exciting and informative activities for a variety of people such as diabetic patients, their relatives, and individuals who are just plain health buffs.

This year’s event will revolve around the family and also designed with a carnival theme. It aims to impart that life will be much more fun and enjoyable if people will live a healthy lifestyle.

People with diabetes will be able to better manage their disease to avoid further complications and people who do not have the disease will get to ensure that they will not develop it in the future. Diabetes should not hinder people in living a healthy and active life.

There will also be a lay forum in which the respective groups of Dr. Augusto Litonjua, president of the Diabetes Center Philippines and Philippine Association for the Study of Overweight and Obesity (for the first day), and Dr. Ricardo Fernando, founder and president of the Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation Inc. (for the second day), will educate and inform the audience regarding diabetes in a more detailed discussion.