Modification of nutrition, lifestyle critical to disease prevention
Wigerians have been urged to maintain adequate nutritional diets, as well as abstain from lifestyle that predisposes one to health issues like diabetes, cancer, respiratory disorders, among others, as a method of curbing high incidence of Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) in the country. Making the call are experts who spoke at a one-day workshop organised by Coca Cola Nigeria in Lagos, recently, tagged: ‘Adequate Nutrition and Lifestyle : Essential for Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases,’ who stressed that Nigerians must make deliberate attempts to prevent the numerous health issues in the country. A Consultant Nutritionist and Dietician, Dr Chika Ndiokwelu, who spoke at the workshop, said that eating unhealthy diets have been discovered to cause a number of preventable diseases, even as she said that, processed foods contain more harmful elements than the well known African foods and vegetables which the country was used to. While stating that poor food intake, smoking, harmful