Anambra Governor’s wife and founder of the NGO, Healthy Living with Nonye Soludo, Mrs. Nonye Soludo has called for reevaluation of dietary lifestyle and physical habits in the face of growing mortalities resulting from diabetes.
Mrs. Soludo, who stated this in a statement to mark the 2023 World Diabetes Day in Awka, observed that part of the vision of her NGO is to preach healthy lifestyle as an important factor to fighting deadly health challenges including diabetes.
The governor’s wife referred to the 2021 report by the International Diabetes Federation, IDF that over five hundred and thirty-seven million adults globally, representing one in every ten, between twenty to Seventy-nine years age brackets are living with diabetes, with an estimation that the number could rise to six hundred and forty-three million by 2030 and seven hundred and eighty-three million by 2045.
She stressed the need for people to embrace healthy consumption culture, engage in more physical exercise, and maintaining the right attitude towards cutting down body weight.
Mrs. Soludo while calling on people to be mindful of what they consume, noted that even though food remains the first and major medicine against most killer diseases, making the wrong choice of it can be detrimental to health.
The Governor’s wife further explained that understanding the nature of the illness is an important step to managing and preventing it, stressing that routine medical checks and early diagnosis are key to managing diabetes.
With global reports that more than one-point-two million children and adolescents between the ages of zero to nineteen live with type one diabetes, Mrs. Soludo also urged parents to watch the type of foods available for their children, and to stick to diets that can boost their immune system.
She also advised households in the state to take extra steps towards getting quality health care by enrolling in the Anambra State Health Insurance Scheme, and promised that the current administration will continue to enact health policies that will benefit every resident of the state.
International Diabetes Federation reports that diabetes caused six point seven million deaths in 2021 alone.
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