The Nigeria Medical Association, (NMA-FCT) elders forum has urged Nigerians, especially the youth, on the need to eat right for healthy living, noting such also controls life expectancy.
Dr Udofia Enefiok, Acting Chairman of the association’s elders forum, gave the advice at a meeting tagged “A day out with the elders”.
According to reports, the meeting was part of the activities lined up for the 2023 Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the association.
Enefiok urged Nigerians, particularly the youth, not to eat anyhow because such food was free.
Noting that everyone must relate properly with the kind of food eaten.
According to him, at every stage of life, there are specific foods made for those stages and that “if you carry food that you have been eating when you are young and eat such quantities at age 60 or 70, you are doing yourself more harm than good.
“It is important to know that God created us and made provisions for a lot of things, a lot of food. God does not do things without reason and he kept those things for us to live with.
“It is expected that those foods are for purposes which we must get to know and then use appropriately in order to stay healthy, that is the expectation of God”.
He said, unfortunately, a lot did not relate well with those foods, “we do what we want, we eat what we want because it is free, and God cannot constraint us, therefore we cannot live to achieve the old age we want”.
“It is not that we won’t die, God may want us to die at a particular time or from a natural disaster, or other unforeseen circumstances. Some deaths are from the food we eat and it results in sicknesses.
In addition, he opined that if one ate quality food, the cells, as the basic foundations of life, would also be healthy and the organs of the body such as the heart, kidney and others would also be healthy.
Enefiok revealed that the forum realized that eating right could avoid some diseases like hypertension, diabetes, cardiac arrest, kidney failure and others.
