The Chairman of the Lifestyle Medicine Foundation, has called on deeming agencies to work together with the just-appointed Director of HealthiWealthi Africa Initiative, Ambassador Peace Onuiri (MPH, FOSHA].
He made this call to aid in facilitating healthy lifestyles to lessen chronic diseases and enhance optimum health.
WHO IS AMBASSADOR ONUIRI?
Ambassador Onuiri is a Public health specialist for over a decade. The health expert is also an OSH manager, where she’s dubbed the Chairman of OSHA UK, Ogun State Chapter and Vice Chairman of OSHA UK Advisory Council, Nigeria Region.
The newly appointed director of HealthiWealthi Africa Initiative is also a Brand Ambassador for African Tourism Board.
She has a devotion to Health advancement and was recently a panelist during the 56th session of the United Nations Commission on Population Development.
HealthiWealthi Africa Initiative:
HealthiWealthi is a constituent of the Lifestyle Medicine Foundation that works rigorously toward the better of Health coaching to fight chronic diseases.
According to Research, quite a number of chronic signs can be lessened and changed through the deeds of thorough lifestyle modifications.
Furthering, Health coaches are habit revision specialists, who facilitate people to practice health improving conduct, allowing them to make better decisions on micro habits at a time.
WAYS TO IMPROVE AND ENCOURAGE HEALTH PRACTICES
•stress management,
•exercise
· healthy diet and sleep
· hygiene and adherence to doctor's prescription and protocol.
WAYS TO CURB THE EFFECTS OF AGGRAVATED NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
The disadvantage of chronic non-communicable diseases ring bold steps for individuals and communities to accept healthier lifestyles of adequate diet, more exercise, improved sleep, managed stress, and supportive relationships.
However, the hindrance in curbing the effects and working toward lifestyle changes, which is hard for most people due to the cyclic nature of the behavior change process that requires specific interventional procedures.
For this reason, there is a need for the affiliation and a conformational alliance of health coaches, who provides behavior change methodologies that aim to prevent diabetes,
hypertension,arthritis, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, cancer, addictions and other chronic disorders.
According to the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaches (NBHWC), health and Wellness coaches partner with clients who are seeking self-directed lasting changes, aligned with their values, which promote health and Wellness, thereby enhancing well-being.
In their work, health and Wellness coaches display unconditional positive regard for their clients and belief in their capacity for change, acknowledging that each client is an expert on his or her life, while ensuring that all interactions are respectful and nonjudgmental.
Many health coaches are nonclinical professionals from variety of backgrounds in physical fitness, health education,nutrition consulting, and human resources, among others.
Health coaches are committed to offering unconditional positive regards, holding clients as agents of self-autonomy and experts in their own lives and believes in the client's capacity for change.
Health coaching for lifestyle change is a relatively new concept in Africa but there are over 5,000 National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coaches (NBC-HWC) in the US and other nations are adopting similar competencies.
Consequently, we urge and prompt the training and involvement of additional health coaches across the Globe
