Lifestyle, major cause of deaths in Nigeria

The Assistant Director of Physiotherapy,  General Hospital, Ojuelegba, Dr. Babatunde Adeolu has said that the lifestyle most Nigerians live is the cause of various diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, stroke, high blood pressure, and obesity among others, leading to deaths in the country. 

He  made this known recently in a health lecture at The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Living Stone Assembly Lagos province 13, Gbagada. 

Adeolu said, “We now have frequent cases of diabetes, high blood pressure, which are more common in the 21st centuries, as it happens to most persons as a result of their life style; and in some other cases, they are hereditary”. 

He said that,  “if a person’s blood pressure in the upper and lower limit is above 80 and 120 respectively, then, medically, we say that person has high blood pressure.”

 He said, “A person with high blood pressure should cater for themselves regularly by always going for regular checkup.’’ 

Also, speaking on posture and general well-being, he said that individual should understand their body system, as some people have the ability to stand for a long time, while others don’t.

  Adeolu explained that as a person, if you observed that you are uncomfortable in a particular sitting or standing position such a person is advised to change from that current position. 

“If you are standing and it give you pains that means you have been standing for too long, it would be better to change to a comfortable position’’, he said.

 He noted that some of the risk factors, such as age, gender, diet, occupation, dirty environment, excess alcohol, smoking, tobacco consumption, lack of proper diet, intake of hard drugs and sedentary lifestyle, among others, are causes of most disease that affect humans in the 21st century.

Adeolu urged members of the RCCG to deviate from all additives and bad lifestyles that are harmful to human health.