Nonye Soludo advises women on formula for healthy living

Nonye, wife of Gov. Charles Soludo of Anambra State, has urged Nigerian women to ensure that they eat balanced diet so they can maintain a healthy living. She said this in her address after “Walk for Life” physical exercise organised by Ultimate Business Women and Farmers Association of Nigeria (UBWFAN) on Monday in Awka. She said that careless eating and drinking habit in addition to lack of physical exercise by individuals usually result in numerous health challenges. The governor’s wife urged the women to see exercise and eating right as important for healthy living, saying without this, the body become deteriorated. She said there was the need for regulated intake of salt in view of the current high mortality cases and sicknesses associated with consumption of sodium-based foods. Nonye cited recent statistics by the World Health Organisation (WHO) which indicated that more 2 million deaths occurred annually due to salt related sicknesses. She said that while salt was an important ingredient for food, consuming it in excess result in serious health problems. She commended the female farmers for organising themselves for the physical exercise and urged them to see the practice as not only safe but healthy. Earlier, the National President, UBWFAN, Mrs Nkiru Nwagbo said the “Walk for Life” physical exercise was to promote healthy living among members. Nwagbo said Ultimate Business Women and Farmers Association of Nigeria was a non-profit women organisation based in Anambra involved in agricultural activities and promotion of healthy practices among women. The Guest Speaker at the event and the state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Forster Ihejiofor stressed the need for regular exercise and eating right. He said that three to ten minutes regular exercise daily can help to prolong people’s lives and wade-off disease that normally occur to people that don’t form exercise as habit. Ihejiofor observed that since there was life in the blood, there was the need to clean the blood stream through regular exercise and healthy dieting. The event was preceded by road walk, physical exercise, medical checkup and health talks and attended by first female professor of Mass Communication, Chinyere Okunna, Woman Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mrs Chinyere Onyekesi among others.