Nutritious food key to immune booster, says expert
Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN), the Ministry of Health has urged people to pay key attention to old people in society.
Dr. Habeeb Lawal, the project manager of ANRiN, made it known while featuring live on Kwara Television on a programme ‘Adequate Nutrition and Healthy Living’, which was anchored by the Ministry of Communications.
Dr Lawal, while highlighting the importance of nutritious food, said as a human being grows, most of the organs of the body get aged, and as such old people are more prone to having infections, highlighting the problems associated with ageing as dementia, reduction in appetite, low weight, among others.
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He also disclosed that the stomach shrinks as people age, making it difficult to contain significant food to provide the needed nutrition for the body, hence the elderly are admonished to look into their nutritional status by having at least five classes of food at each meal to ensure adequate nutrients to boost their immunity.
Speaking on the importance of water, The ANRiN Project Manager said the importance of water cannot be over-emphasized as it helps to transport the ingested food, aid digestion and regulate the body temperature and advised that people should drink water as many times as they feel like, noting that inadequate intake of water makes the urine yellowish and there are no hard and fast rules on the quantity of water to take per day.
