America, like many other highly industrialized countries,
has an ever growing issue with non-communicable diseases.
In fact, non-communicable diseases, chronic disease, really it counts for
most of the healthcare expenditure and healthcare problems in this country.
And it's not just in the US as I said.
It's in many other industrialized countries and increasingly in the lower
and middle income countries as well, what we've called in class the Global South.
Since our unit is going to be looking at these non-communicable diseases, both in
the global north and the global south, I thought it would be interesting if we
spent a little bit of time discussing some of the reasons that non-communicable
diseases are on the rise, and actually what some of these diseases might be.
But to do that I think instead of being here in Durham,
we're going to take a little trip to Europe.
Maybe we'll go to hm, I think we're going to go to Austria.
I'll see you there.
[SOUND] Hi students, I am in Austria
in its famous capital, Vienna.
And I'm here at the Sacher cafe where I'm about to
indulge in the world famous couture.
You know, we are about to talk in our class about non-communicable diseases, and
it's difficult to talk about those diseases without talking about the risk
factors that underlie them.
We know that, we have many factors that contribute to noncommunicable disease.
We're going to learn that smoking is public enemy number one.
But, current lifestyle and nutritional trends are also contributing rapidly.
Excess calories, and calories that come from, refined grains,
refined sugars, too much fat, especially unhealthy fats, and
an increasing lack of physical activity and increased stress.
The world all cause an increase not only in body weight,
but in lipid and, and sugar levels in your body.
Ultimately increasing our risk for
conditions like cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Now it doesn't mean that you can't have a little bit of a good thing, but
it does mean that we need to pay very careful attention to diet and
lifestyle in populations.
Because otherwise a little bit of a good thing can be too much.
With that being said I am going to dig into this.
Oh that is really, really good, and I'll see you in India.
[NOISE] Good morning class.
I am in southern India, one of the most beautiful parts of this country.
Absolutely with the best food, lord knows over the last few days of my work here,
I've eaten so much I feel like I need to go on a diet when I get back.
But speaking of food, I want to take this opportunity to talk to you about one of
the most important and epidemic non-communicable diseases
taking place globally right now and that is diabetes.