Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed a illness he has been battling with for the previous 35 years.

Based on him, he has been battling diabetes for years. He added that the illness has killed his buddies, however he was capable of handle it.

Mr Obasanjo gave the trace on Wednesday through the closing ceremony of the Ogun State Diabetes Youth Improvement Camp, held in Abeokuta, Ogun state.

The camp, which was organised by Talabi Diabetes Centre, skilled 21 kids dwelling with type-1 diabetes within the state on the right way to handle the illness.

Based on a report by Every day Belief, Mr Obasanjo suggested the kids to handle the ailment properly by sustaining good wholesome way of life, insisting that diabetes just isn’t a killer illness.

The previous president advised the kids to abstain from consuming sugar, meals with carbohydrates and all the time take their insulin injection to be able to handle the illness properly.

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He mentioned: “I’ve been recognized of diabetes for greater than 35 years now and right here I’m, I’m nonetheless going about, I’m nonetheless leaping up and down, I’m nonetheless doing many issues many individuals of my age can not do.

“Since I used to be recognized of diabetes, quite a few my buddies have died and the reason being as a result of they simply didn’t handle their diabetes the best way they need to handle it.

“It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re kind one or kind two, to date there isn’t a treatment for diabetes, possibly there can be treatment earlier than I die, however I pray that there can be treatment earlier than you die.

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“You need to perceive the kind of meals you must eat, you could fully abstain from sugar. The quantity of carbohydrates that you simply take have to be watched.

“Don’t miss your medication, in your individual case, your insulin injection, I take my medication together with me in all places I’m going and I all the time test my blood sugar degree often.

“Don’t let anyone put concern in your minds, diabetes, has no treatment for now, however it may be managed.”