Bernard is joined by Portia Sonia Adoley Gabor of TV3, Kate Baaba Hudson of Daily Graphic, and Jubal Kwaku Amedetor, also of TV3.

The 3-day press trip to Denmark for the selected Ghanaian journalists, is in preparation for the visit of the Danish Queen to Ghana, on November 23 – 24, 2017.

The press trip from October 30 to November 2, 2017, comes with a comprehensive program, including a unique opportunity for a press conference with Her Majesty the Queen.

It will also include visits to businesses and cultural locations in Copenhagen and its surroundings.

Background

At the invitation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Denmark’s Head of State, Her Majesty the Queen, will visit Ghana from 23 – 24 November on an official State Visit.

The State Visit will emphasize and consolidate the long-standing and well-established relations between Ghana and Denmark, while at the same time marking the gradual transition of the relations from aid to trade.

The Queen will be accompanied by a Danish business delegation within three focus sectors, namely food & agriculture, sustainability, maritime, infrastructure and railways.

The visit by the Queen was first announced in a statement issued by the Danish Embassy  in September, 2017.

Ghana and Denmark have enjoyed strong commercial ties over the years, and this visit by the Queen, is expected to strengthen those bonds.

“During many years, Denmark through the Danida Development Cooperation has played an important role in developing key sectors and institutions in Ghana” the Embassy said.

It noted that “With Ghana’s graduation to a middle-income country, and the prospects of sustainable economic growth, Denmark is gradually transitioning from development cooperation to trade cooperation in line with the visions by the Government of Ghana,” the Embassy said.

The Danish Queen is expected to attend the opening of the conference and pay visits to several local business and cultural institutions.

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By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The findings, published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, indicated men and those doing rotating shifts were at highest risk.

It is thought that disruption to the body clock affects waistlines, hormones and sleep – which could increase the risk.

Diabetes UK said shift workers should eat a healthy balanced diet.

The disease can lead to blindness, increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as damaging nerves and blood vessels – dramatically increasing the risk of a foot needing to be amputated.

Studies in a sleep laboratories have shown that making people snooze at the wrong time of day led to the early stages of type 2 diabetes developing within weeks.

Now an analysis of data from 226,652 people strengthens the link with type 2 diabetes.

Increased risk

In the UK, 45 out of every 1,000 adults have some form of diabetes, with the vast majority being type 2.

The study, by researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, showed shift workers were 9% more likely to have type 2 diabetes.

But in men, the figure was 35%. And for people chopping and changing between day and night shifts, the risk increased by 42%.

The researchers said: “The result suggests that male shift workers should pay more attention to the prevention of of diabetes.

“Given the increasing prevalence of shift work worldwide and the heavy economic burden of diabetes, the results of our study provide practical and valuable clues for the prevention of diabetes.”

Possible explanations include shift work disrupting sleeping and eating patterns. One idea is that eating late at night makes the body more prone to store the energy as fat, increasing the risk of obesity and in turn type 2 diabetes.

The increased risk in men could be down to changes in levels of male hormones, it has been suggested.

Also, because the studies are looking at only one snapshot in time it is impossible to say definitively that shift work causes diabetes as other factors could be at play.

The type of person more prone to type 2 diabetes may be more likely to become a shift worker.

One of the researchers, Prof Zuxun Lu, told the BBC: “Shift workers should be educated about diabetes symptoms in an effort to forestall or avert the earliest clinical manifestations of disease.

“Improved shift modifying strategies should be implemented into the company’s management scheme to effectively protect shift worker from diabetes.

“Finally, the increased risk of diabetes apparent in rotating shift group and male shift workers, suggests that people who do shift work should pay more attention to the prevention of diabetes.”

Dr Alasdair Rankin, from the charity Diabetes UK, said: “These findings suggest that shift workers need to be aware of their personal risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

“They can do this by taking a type 2 diabetes risk assessment, either online or in their local pharmacy.

“The best way to reduce your risk of type 2 is to maintain a healthy weight through regular physical activity and by eating a healthy balanced diet.”

Prof Nick Wareham, from the University of Cambridge, said any effect was moderate.

He added: “If it were shown that it is shift working itself that has a link to diabetes, then the key question would be to identify what interventions could be put in place to alleviate the risks in those who have to work shifts.”

Source: BBC

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