Nigerians have been advised to pay cognitive attention to ensuring a healthy lifestyle.

In addition, they should endeavor to exercise regularly, eat diet related foods and ensure regular checkups to prevent risk of non-communicable diseases.

This advice was given at a one-day free screening organized by Dennis Ashley Wellness Centre, which is aimed at educating people to understand the need of living a healthy.

Speaking at the programme in Lagos, Managing Director, Dennis Ashley Wellness Centre, Dr. Chima Oti said the diet Nigerians consume in all their cultural variety defines to a large extent people’s health growth and development.

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Risk behaviours, such as alcohol intake, drug abuse and physical inactivity, modify the result for better or worse living.

“All this takes place in a social, cultural, political and economic environment that can intensify the health of Nigerians unless active measures are taken to make the environment a health promoting one.

According to him, Dennis Ashley Wellness Center was borne from a need to blend under one roof, most of the different elements that give rise to the concept of wellness.

“Wellness through the ages has been regarded as a nirvana that most people regardless of class, religion, gender, ethnicity, occupation, etc. consider as impossibility.