The wife of Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo has advised Nigerians to embrace healthy living, good nutrition, environmental cleanliness, basic life skills and sound morals in order to maintain longevity and fight diseases.
Anambra First Lady revealed that she has embarked on a healthy living campaign across schools in the country aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles among children with a view to inculcating into them the culture of good diets with local foods.
She made this known in Awka, on Friday, during a media chat to promote her project, tagged, ‘Healthy living with Nonye Soludo Campaign’, urging Nigerians to avoid chemicalized food which damages the organs of the body.
Mrs Soludo emphasized that the campaign had begun in primary and secondary schools with the aim of helping children imbibe the culture of healthy living so that as they grow older, they would know certain things to avoid and how to clean up their systems with good nutrition.
She said, “I started championing ‘Healthy living with Nonye Soludo’ 10 years ago. I give talks on healthy lifestyles and good diets with our local foods.
“I want to bring the message home to our people because we need to be healthy to achieve a liveable and prosperous homeland.
“I have started forming healthy living clubs in our schools to inculcate the culture of healthy lifestyles and catch them young so that they can grow into responsible adults.
She, however, urged Nigerians to cut down on processed and chemicalized foods and embrace backyard farming in order to harvest and eat natural foods.
“Our mission is to mobilize everybody, every critical sector in the society to make healthy living a culture. People should realize that if they keep dumping chemicalized foods on their bodies, the organs will be suffering until they make conscious efforts to clean up the system by eating healthy.
“Our local foods are readily available and cheap. They are also energy-giving, healing and medicinal to our body systems, organs and general health.
“We need to start avoiding processed foods and make conscious efforts to eat well with more grains of fiber and do 30 minutes of exercise daily,” she added.
