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  • Nestlé raises awareness on healthy lifestyle

    Nestlé Nigeria has celebrated this year’s International Chef’s Day by hosting chefs and school children at the company’s headquarters in Ilupeju, Lagos. In line with this year’s theme: ‘Healthy Foods for Growing Up’, 50 chefs from the Association of Professional Chefs Nigeria engaged the children in fun activities, demonstrating how healthy eating helps  children to attain their dreams.

    The children shared what they wanted to become when they grew up, and for each exciting career choice, the chefs were able to explain how eating healthy foods could help them achieve their great career goals and encourage good eating habits to carry with them for life.

    International Chef’s Day, celebrated every October 20, offers chefs from around the globe a unique opportunity to network, promote their profession and make a difference in their local communities through making healthy eating fun and exciting for children.

    Speaking at the event, Gbechoevi Benoit, Executive Chef, Protea Hotel, encouraged the children to dream big, and eat right to be their best every day while working towards their career goals.

    “As we all know, good food equals good health. Learning to eat the right food in these early days of your life will set you on the right path to live a productive and successful life.

    “The theme for this year’s event is very significant for us in the Association of Professional Chefs of Nigeria as it is in line with our objectives to showcase and promote healthy African cuisine. We thank Nestlé for creating this platform for us to teach the next generation healthy food habits that will help them through their lifetime.”

     

    Nestlé Professional, the business unit that offers a wide range of Beverage, Food and Confectionery products, to the out of home customers, organizes a yearly event in collaboration with the World Chefs Association to raise awareness of healthier diets and lifestyles.

    Mr. Rabie Issa, Business Executive Officer for Nestlé Professional in Central West Africa said, “Supporting

    International Chefs Day through various activities and partnerships is part of Nestlé Professional’s commitment to improve global nutrition by raising awareness on healthy eating and increasing nutrition knowledge. This commitment contributes towards fulfilling Nestlé’s purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future by teaching children to make informed choices and form healthier habits even at an early age.”

    Since its foundation, Nestlé has been committed to helping parents and caregivers provide the right nutrition for their children. International Chef’s Day 2018 is another opportunity for the company to work towards fulfilling this commitment. The theme, ‘Healthy Foods for Growing Up’, aligns with the three Nestlé for Healthier Kids (N4HK) action pillars – Build, Share and Apply Nutrition Knowledge, Offer Tastier and Healthier Choices, Inspire Families to Raise Healthier Kids. Launched in Nigeria in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Health earlier this year, Nestlé for Healthier Kids promotes healthy lifestyles in schools by educating children and parents on nutrition and fostering physical activity. N4HK reaches over 60 teachers and 17,000 children in 30 schools closest to Nestlé Nigeria’s operations in Ogun State and the Federal Capital Territory.

     

  • ‘Healthy lifestyle critical to productivity’

    Healthy lifestyle is critical to enhancing productivity at work places and promoting family ties, South Korea technology firm, LG Electronics has said.

    Its Managing Director for West Africa Operation, Mr Taeick Son, said the firm is therefore committed to innovative designs that will enable lifestyle convenience while creating seamless user experience of its products.

    Speaking in Lagos yesterday at the unveiling of the firm’s new products, Son said: “Today, families are paying more attention to healthy lifestyle and appreciating the importance of having a family meal. These have led to a rising interest in getting smarter in the kitchen. We want to make life better for everyone by providing affordable devices,”

    He said the firm is offering customers choices kitchen with LG’s fastest-growing feature for the kitchen — LG Instaview —adding that with the firm, there’s no compromise on quality.

     

     

  • ‘Worker’s safety, healthy lifestyle our priority’

    The management of Chemstar Paints Industry Nigeria Limited, manufacturers of Finecoat and Shield paints, has said the safety and health of its workers will remain its priority.

    The company also said some money was being set aside yearly to procure safety kits and tools, such as safety boots, work wears, eyes goggles, helmets and nose masks, to enhance its workers’ health and safety.

    Chemstar’s Deputy Managing Director, Mr. Adedayo Paseda, gave the assurance during the kick-off of this year’s Safety and Health Week, a yearly event, instituted by the firm to inculcate in the workers the need to live a safety and healthy lifestyle within and outside their working environment.

    The theme of the four-day event, which featured health talk and free medical check-up, sensitisation, fire lecture and drilling, was: Safety and Healthy Living: Together we can Achieve it.

    Declaring open the week, Paseda said Chemstar would always ensure that the workers live a healthy life, adding that the yearly safety and health week was among avenues to boost their well-being.

    This year’s event, which coincided with the company’s 23rd Founder’s Day, enabled the workers to know their health status through the free medical check-up.

    “Every member of the society has a responsibility for ensuring and maintaining healthy and safety living,” Paseda said.

    The company chief noted that Chemstar had continued to perform its role in meeting the safety needs of its workers through the yearly programme.

    He said: “What we set out this year to achieve is for every worker to be self-conscious to live healthy and be responsible for his or her neighbours. There is need for a chain relationship, hence we should be conscious of the impact of our actions on the system and other people.”

    Paseda urged the workers to participate in all activities for the week, adding that the management frowned at non-participation of the workers.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Coca-cola, nutritionists collaborate on healthy lifestyle

    Committed to the promotion of a culture of healthy lifestyle and preventive health care among its customers, Coca-Cola Nigeria has sponsored the 2015 Annual Health Symposium/World Food Day. It was organised by the Association of Nutrition Science Students (ANSS), University of Ibadan. Over 300 students of nutrition and experts attended the symposium.

    While welcoming participants to the symposium tagged, “Breaking the Cycle of Rural Poverty: The Role of Nutrition”, the President, Association of Nutrition Science Students (ANSS) University of Ibadan, Vincent Okafor, called on organisations and institutions involved in food and nutrition programmes to collaborate with other stakeholders in order to address the food security challenges in the country.

    Okafor noted that rural communities had significant roles to play in the economic and social development of nations, especially developing ones, since over 70 per cent of the world’s poor people live in rural areas.

    On his part, Community Affairs Manager, Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited, Emeka Mba expressed the commitment of the beverage giant towards promoting the long-term wellness of the community in which they operate.

    Mba said: “Our business is only as prosperous as the communities in which we operate. We support dialogue forums with stakeholders from the academia, industry groups and research and development institutes to foster a shared understanding and balanced communication on health and nutritional issues.

    “In addition, we also support over 280 nutritional education programmes and physical activities across the world, as part of our commitments to promote consumers’ well-being.

    In her keynote presentation on “Physical Activity and Health”, the Consultant Public Health Physician and Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Dr. Oluwakemi Odukoya explained that “physical activity includes exercise as well as other activities which involve bodily movement and are done as part of playing, working, active transportation, house chores and recreational activities.”

    Dr. Odukoya advised the participants to ensure they get, “at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week to strengthen and keep their hearts healthy.”

    The members of the ANSS commended Coca-Cola Nigeria for its relentless support towards promoting health and wellness. An Award for Excellence was presented to the beverage giant by the student body.

    The symposium also offered nutrition experts an avenue to discuss different issues relating to general healthy living and wellness.