The shortage of water in the body has been blamed for different health challenges.
A medical expert, Dr. Oluwashina Salami, Senior Registrar at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife, made this disclosure during a medical sensitisation workshop for the 2020 Batch B stream 2 and Batch A corps members at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp, Ede, Osun State.
While urging the corps members to increase their intake of water, especially during this warm weather, he revealed that shortage of water in the body can be detrimental to human health and may lead to death.
According to him, “the importance of water to the human body cannot be over-emphasised. That is why researches disclosed that the body is composed of 66 percent water. In order to maintain that, it is advisable to take an average of 2.5 litres of water daily.
“Without taking water, the body will lose water through various means like sweating, urinating and defecating. There is need to always take water even when you’re not tasty.
“8 cups of water is what is recommended daily to keep the balance of water in the body.”
He explained that body pains, dizziness, indigestion, constipation and headache may arise if there is shortage of water in the body system.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says eating less meat can help reduce the risk of coronavirus and save the environment.
The global body gave the advice while announcing a new Chatham House report on Wednesday.
Speaking on the report, Philip Lymbery of Compassion in World Farming, called for caution by humans.
“At a time when so much of the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s never been more obvious that the well-being of people and animals, wild and farmed, are intertwined,” he said.
UNEP warned that if ecosystems are continually destroyed, the population’s food supply will be endangered.
The document called for a shift to plant-based foods and protection of lands.
Renowned primatologist, Jane Goodall said intensive farming of billions of animals globally damages the environment.
She stressed that this causes “loss of biodiversity, producing massive greenhouse gas emissions that accelerate global warming”.
The Federal Government has said the the COVID-19 vaccine is not meant to kill Africans as speculated by many.
Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha said this on Tuesday at the inauguration of the State House Clinic Special Care Centre (COVID-19 Isolation Centre), Abuja.
Mustapha dismissed the conspiracy theory surrounding the vaccine, stressing that no country was interested in spending money just to kill Africans.
The SGF said the FG would continue to sensitize Nigerians on the benefit of been vaccinated against the dreaded virus.
He stressed that absence of the vaccine may deny Nigerians from traveling outside the country.
Recall that Nigerians, especially some religious leaders have kicked against the vaccine, saying there were other motives behind its production.
Recall also that the former senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, had in a video urged Nigerians to steer clear of the vaccine, maintaining that the speed at which the vaccine is being produced remains suspicious.
