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Facts of good eating habits
Balance your foods
To avoid getting too much of
any nutrient, try to eat foods from
all food groups in the healthy eating
pyramid, including low
glycemic load carbohydrates, proteins,
and healthy fats as well as
good sources of vitamins and
minerals.
Eat plenty of fruits and
vegetables
These are all excellent sources
of fiber, healthy sugars, vitamins
and minerals. Fiber is useful in
keeping your cholesterol levels
low and cleaning out the intestinal
tract. Vitamins and minerals are
required by the most basic of
metabolic processes in the body.
Avoid eating fast foods
They are loaded with salt, sugar
and bad fats that have no nutritional
value. While they may put
an end to your hunger, they are of
no benefit to your body.
Choose low fat foods
The average diet contains more
fat than our body requires. Opting
for low fat options when available
will help balance the foods that
are higher in fats.
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Vodafone CEO joins
staff to ride to work
BY PHILIP ANTOH
philip.antoh@dailyheritage.com
KNOWN FOR her commitment to
promoting a healthy lifestyle
among employees, the Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Vodafone
Ghana, Mrs Yolanda Cuba,
on Wednesday morning led a team of employees
to ride bicycles to work in an effort to highlight
the importance of physical exercise to the
overall wellbeing.
The move formed part of a Vodafone
group-wide campaign dubbed ‘Global Wellbeing
Month.’
The exercise was the second time Mrs Cuba
had led the team to ride a bicycle from Cantonments,
through the Aviation Social Centre to
the Vodafone head office at Airport city in
Accra.
Speaking after the exercise, she said the
value Vodafone places on employee health,
safety and wellbeing could not be over empha-
“We have
made great
strides in ensuring
a
healthy and a
safe workplace
for employees,
contractors
and the general
public
within our
jurisdiction.”
•Mrs Yolanda Cuba, Vodafone CEO in the
front lead with other staff
sised.
“We have made great strides in
ensuring a healthy and a safe workplace
for employees, contractors and
the general public within our jurisdiction.
The great work accomplished
in the health and safety
sphere has culminated in our celebration
of four years without any
fatal incident.
“We reckon that life style choices
affect individual’s health and wellbeing
and this is why we are working
hard to facilitate the health and wellbeing
of employees,” she said.
Mrs Cuba explained that Vodafone
dedicated October 16 to November
17 this year to promote the
wellbeing of employees across the
company, adding that ‘while we do
this we compete amongst other
OpCos in a ‘Global Wellbeing Challenge’.
She further stated that Vodafone
Ghana had won the ‘Global Wellbeing
Challenge’ for the past two years.
“We want to be the first again for the
third consecutive time while the
wellbeing of our employees continues
to improve.”
The one-month campaign had
various activities including aerobic
session every Friday to keep employees
active and fit and a business fusion
session.
Others are, a day of games and
team bonding to entrench the spirit
of good health and exercise among
employees, biggest weight loser competition
throughout the month to
help employees lose weight and improve
their health and a healthy
lifestyle awareness to encourage and
promote healthy eating.
First Lady calls for action to end FGM
THE FIRST Lady, Mrs Rebecca
Akufo-Addo, has called for a strong
leadership drive, common purpose
and urgent actions from stakeholders
as key elements to eliminate Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM) globally.
She said since the practice involved
human lives, in deeply rooted
cultures across many regions including
Africa and Asia, there was the
need to mobilise stakeholders such as
governments, policy makers, civil society
organisations, as well as resources
to facilitate measures to
eradicate FGM.
Mrs Akufo-Addo explained that
the practice, which involved the cutting
of some vital parts of the female
genitalia, leaves victims to suffer great
pain, excessive bleeding, difficulty
during sexual activity, infections, psychological
trauma, and obstetric complications
that may lead to fistula or
maternal mortality.
FGM, she said, was also expected
to be a contributory factor to the high
maternal deaths in Africa, adding that
actions such as legislations, education
and information campaigns had been
undertaken over the past years to discourage
the practice, but much still
remained to be done.
Speaking at the opening of a twoday
International Meeting on FGM in
Accra on Wednesday, Mrs Akufo-
Addo appealed to all stakeholders,
nationally and internationally, to intensify
their actions aimed at curbing
the harmful and primitive cultural
practice under which girls, who were
as young as four weeks to 12 years,
were made to suffer.
She said that practice did not only
infringe upon the fundamental rights
•Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, the First Lady
of women and girls, but was
detrimental to their health
and development as it
robbed females of the right
over their natural sexual
functions.
The First Lady said the
meeting, which was hosted
by the Ghana Health Service,
in collaboration with the
United Nations Population
Fund, was part of the activities
to commemorate the annual
Regional Meeting of
African Union Ministers of
Health on the campaign on
Accelerated Reduction on
Maternal, Newborn and
Child mortality in Africa.
Mrs Akufo-Addo said
“FGM is a gender-based violation
that clearly takes away
the human rights and autonomy
of females and also
seeks to control females sexuality.”
She said available data did
not show any known benefits
of the primitive cultural
practice, but had only presented
horrific results from
women and girls who had
gone through the negative
ritual, some of which had
ended up fatally.
Mrs Akufo-Addo called
for strong and sustained
community education and
outreach programmes about
the harmful effects of FGM,
to change behaviours and attitudes,
and improve access
to sexual and reproductive
health information and resources
for women and girls
to fully understand their
rights while governments
provide medical care and
counselling for victims.
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