A community health service provider in Kwara state, Alhaji Azeez Olayinka, has advised journalists on the importance of consuming certain healthy foods for better eyesight.
Delivering a lecture on how to maintain good eyesight during one of the activities for the 2024 Press Week Celebration of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ, Kwara state on Tuesday, Alhaji Azeez said that consumption of healthy food plays a crucial role in eye care.
He emphasized the need for extra care and good maintenance of the eyes, adding that needed nutrients for proper body and eye functions do not always require expensive and sophisticated processed foods.
“As humans, there are ways to care for our eyes by ensuring we eat healthy food. We don’t need to buy expensive supermarket foods to get the nutrients but local natural food items in the market can help get your body and eyes to function properly.
“Taking Palm oil, Pawpaw and Carrot which are not that expensive are very rich in ‘Vitamin A’ and highly recommended for maintaining of good eyesight.“
The ophthalmology nurse also cautioned against visiting quack for eyes treatment and glasses, said many people had ignorantly damaged their eyes with an uncivilized manner.
“It is not advisable to visit roadside medicine shops, and chemists anytime you are noticing issue with your eyes. They are not experts, and this could lead to wrong recommendations or prescription of drugs that would lead to further damage of one’s eyes.
“It is also very damaging to be applying ‘Camphor’ in the name of healing eyes of Apollo. Many people have lost their eyes unknowingly with this treatment. Similarly, applying breast Milk to the eyes, most especially among nursing mothers is also very condemnable and can lead to eye problems for a child.”
He, however, advised that people should always read in a very illuminated environment and take rest for like two to three minutes after reading for an hour.
Organizers of the Press Week said that the programme would continue on Wednesday with a seminar for members at a resort centre in Offa, adding that the grand finale is on Thursday at Diamond Event Centre, Yidi Road Ilorin with a public lecture to be delivered by Professor Lukman Adeshina Azeez of the University of Ilorin and Senator Umar Suleiman Sadiq of Kwara North, on the topic: ‘Accountability and Transparency: How Journalism Can Foster Good Governance’ and ‘democracy good governance and Role of Citizens’ respectively.
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