Foundation Tasks Nigerians on Healthy Living, Exercise

Nigerians have been urged to engage in exercise and shun unhealthy lifestyles with a view to prevent diabetes, high blood pressure, blood sugar and heart failure and other heart related diseases. This call was made on Saturday in Abuja during a road show walk organised by the Ti’ Bilon Healthcare Foundation  ( THF ) to […]

Nigerians have been urged to engage in exercise and shun unhealthy lifestyles with a view to prevent diabetes, high blood pressure, blood sugar and heart failure and other heart related diseases.

This call was made on Saturday in Abuja during a road show walk organised by the Ti’ Bilon Healthcare Foundation  ( THF ) to create awareness on the need to engage in physical fitness, drink enough water, eat vegetables and fruits.

The  road walk which kicked off from the Family Worship Center ( FWC ) Wuye to Utako Market was attended by over 100 volunteers who shared flyers to the market women and counselled them to prioritize healthy living and good nutrition.

Addressing  journalists at the event  the Managing Director Ti’ Bilon Construction and Founder of the Foundation, Tochukwu Nnamoko stressed the need for Nigerians to cultivate healthy eating habits and avoid consumption of unhealthy food which may damage the heart, kidney and liver.

Tochukwu who is also a medical doctor while enunciating the significance of the road walk said it was anchored on the fact that younger generations have not paying adequate attention to their health and quality of food they eat thereby making them vulnerable.
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He listed some of the risk factors that can trigger heart diseases, high blood pressure and diabetes to include bad diet, smoking, fatty foods, alcohol consumption, lack of exercise, stress, depression, and consumption of cholesterol. He said people came down with life threatening ailments due to unhealthy eating habits and lifestyles, which they are most times, ignorant of the grave consequences.

He therefore charged Nigerians on the need to prioritise their health and changeof life just as he stressed the importance of awareness and vowed to sustain the tempo.

According to him ” Most of these food that we eat are high in starch and cholesterol and these are known causes of diabetes , hypertension which are killing people at different levels. Today we are here to advocate for more exercise.  If we have more people exercising it will reduce the risk of hypertension, diabetes and blood sugar”.

Also speaking at the event one of the Pastors in the church Wilson Akubo  admonished Nigerians to take their health serious and take more of natural food and take carbohydrates, protein, fat and oil in the right proportion.

He commended the Ti’ Bilon Healthcare Foundation for the awareness campaign as he charged them to continue to spread the message.

He said ” Advocacy for healthy living is very crucial because if you look at our society the case of health issues are on the increase on a daily basis.The thing we use to see happen to old people before  we have seen young people suffering the same thing.

” We realised that we need to give attention to our health and so Ti’ Bilon has started this and this is one of the things we think will help people.

“Let your body move around and then nutrition, water , rest and food in the right proportion.  Carbohydrates, protein, olive and fat in the right proportion.  I love what we are doing and I think we will continue to don’t it”.