The Association of Nigerian Dietitians has called on mothers to prepare their own foods with necessary ingredients for their families to ensure healthy living.
The Association’s President, Elizabeth Ngwu who gave the advice while speaking on the 2019 World Diabetes Day in Enugu, expressed worry that present day mothers no longer cook for their families rather they preferred processed foods to natural food.
She noted that confusion created by unregulated dietary information over the internet had necessitated the provision of evidence-based dietary information by Dietitians.
In her welcome address, the Chairperson of the
Dietitian, Enugu State Chapter, Gloria Okafor said that the association had
been sensitizing the general public on how people with diabetics could live a
healthy life and how they could reduce the scourge.
On her part, the association’s Vice-Chairperson Justina Olebu, said that the theme for the 2019 World Diabetes Day ‘Family and Diabetes’ showed that many families all over had one or two people living with diabetes.
