Anambra Governor’s wife, Mrs Nonye Soludo has explained that eating right, in line with the acceptable standards of healthy living, is cheap and does not have to cost a fortune.

 

Mrs Soludo who explained this while responding to questions during one of her engagements with a women group in Awka, noted that economic circumstances do not completely determine healthy living practices, including the choice of what one consumes to keep the body in the best shape.

The Governor’s wife further dispelled the notion that eating healthy is akin to making expensive choice of food, stating that one only needs to go to the small farm behind the house to pick up what the body needs to stay right.

 

She encouraged the reintroduction of gardens around homes, noting that those who live in areas without enough land for subsistence farming purposes can adopt sack farming which does not cost anything to set up.

Mrs Soludo explained that by having such farms around the house, households can have easier and healthier alternatives to food needs, without having to go to markets to probably buy the ones that may not have organic values.

 

The Anambra Governor’s wife, while stating that it is important for households to adopt healthy living as a family culture, stressed that the long-term gains are numerous.

She pointed out that by including nutrition as the first pillar of her healthy living goals, she was looking at a stage when Anambra families will prioritize nutritional values of what they eat, while family health would be greatly improved.