World Food Day: Nigerians Don’t Need Drugs, If They Eat Right — NAFDAC
Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has charged Nigerians to always ensure that only safe and wholesome foods were consumed to boost the immunity and improve the body’s natural defences in fighting diseases. VANGUARD reports.
She also said Nigerians do not need medicines, if they ate right, stressing that eating right meant making healthy food choices from safe, wholesome, and nutritious foods.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaAdeyeye, who gave the admonition at NAFDAC celebration of the 4th World Food Safety Day 2022, with the theme “Safer Food, Better Health,” opined that where food was unsafe, nutritional goals could not be achieved. Information Guide Nigeria
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Adeyeye noted that safe food was an essential component of sustainable development and contributes towards improvement of public health, poverty reduction, and increased food security. jamb results
She said the theme for this year’s celebration was apt, as the world gradually returned to normal with the COVID-19 pandemic, having lost its firm grip on the world.
Adeyeye pointed out that the theme also aligned with the World Health Assembly 75 theme, which is “Health for Peace and Peace for Health,” adding that safer food took the front and centre position for better health and relative personal and world peace.
‘’You all know my popular saying about not needing medicine if one eats right. Eating right means making healthy food choices from safe, wholesome, and nutritious foods,” she said.
She stressed that the occasion of World Food Safety Day remained an added opportunity to create and generate awareness around food safety and situate it as a very significant issue of public health concern, especially in the light of safe, wholesome food being important for boosting immunity and improving the body’s natural defenses in fighting diseases.
The NAFDAC boss disclosed that unsafe foods were the cause of many diseases and contribute to other poor health conditions, such as impaired growth and development.
“We know that food safety is a shared responsibility, and everyone has a role to play in ensuring we have safer food for better health: from growers to processors, to transporters, sellers, buyers, and those who prepare or serve food,” she said.