How to eat right

Eating habits always affect one’s lifestyle. With a zillion food supplements available in the market, people prefer to cut down on their daily count of calories. It often results in a mess, giving rise to many health problems. With an aim to bring in modifications in food habits along with lifestyle changes, Apollo Hospitals, Secunderabad is celebrating the “Nutrition Week” by organising the ‘Healthy Food Exhibition.’

What’s the whole aim of this exhibition? The ‘Healthy Food Exhibition’ has been conceptualised to spread the message of a healthy diet to avoid onset of diseases. “Change in food habits can prevent the diseases like heart attacks, cancer, among others. Making people aware about the nutrition forms is an integral part of disease management and exhibitions like these can raise awareness levels on healthy dietary habits,” explined Dr. Aftab Ahmed, general physician, Apollo Hospitals, Secunderabad.

The exhibition has banner and posters that focus on the vitamins we eat, role of antioxidants to fight against diseases, how to take care of food and maintain hygiene at work while eating.”

The exhibition also stressed of reading about food labels. “There is hardly one section of people, who read food labels on the food packets and analyse the calorie intake. This is one particular process that needs to be encouraged among people,” said Charita Adikane, clinical nutritionist. She also informed that food supplements are never recommended as for people with a normal lifestyle. “If people are finding difficulty to eat, or if the regular diet of people lacks essential vitamins, only then they will be prescribed to them,” she said, 

She also mentioned that a daily diet chart should have four servings of cereals, milk, five to six servings of fruit, pulses, 20-30 gms of fat and different vegetable oils, which neeed to be interchanged everyday.  Apollo Hospitals, Secunderabad, has been celebrating the National Nutrition week from September 3, with a host of activities including lectures and demonstrations by specialists to promote healthy nutrition and active lifestyle. Events like the ‘Know about Nutrition & Exercises during Pregnancy & Lactation for a healthy baby and its bright Future’ by clinical nutritionist Charita Adikane and Yoga Expert Sakina, and healthy recipes for heart, Diabetes and for kidney patients demonstrated by celebrity chef Puneet Mehta of MasterChef India fame.