Thursday, November 15, 2007 Expert warns public on diabetes drugs ads By Carlo P. Mallo
AS THE world celebrated World Diabetes Day Wednesday, endocrinologists in Davao City took it as an opportunity to rectify the false myths most people believe about the debilitating disease.
In an interview Wednesday, Roy Ferrer, an endocrinologist at the Davao Medical Center, said one of the biggest fallacies about diabetes is that it can be transmitted.
"It is a non-communicable disease, hindi ito nakakahawa," Ferrer told Sun.Star Davao.
He also dismissed fallacy that eating too much rice would cause diabetes. "It is absolutely not true," Ferrer said.
Another fallacy about diabetes is the prolonged healing process of wounds and sores. "Not in all cases does it actually mean that the person has diabetes," Ferrer added.
Moreover, Ferrer reminded the public that not all advertisements claiming cure for the disease are true, especially food supplements.
"Not even the advertisements with some of the big celebrities are reliable," Ferrer added.
"These food supplements have no clinical studies and are relying only on the assertions of their endorsers," Ferrer added.
