The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) organized an awareness camp about the selection of diet for improvement for eye vision at Rehmat Hospital here on Thursday.
On that occasion, detailed diet charts, booklets and prescriptions were provided to different eye disease patients. Director General Punjab Food Authority Captain (R) Muhammad Usman, Rehmat Hospital Administrator Moeen Rauf and Hospital Committee President Justice Amir Raza visited the camp and reviewed the arrangements.
At the camp, thirty nutrition experts guided people about the importance of diet for an eye problem. More than seven hundred people have been examined and were given guidance to improve eye vision with nutritious diet. Nutrition experts added that vitamin A in fruits and vegetables plays an important role to strengthen the mussels of an eye. On the other hand excess of fast food more than fruits and vegetables creates problems for eye vision amongst teenagers.
The administrator of the Rehmat Hospital said that awareness camps are educating people about the selection of healthy diet and its importance. On that occasion. Rauf said that healthy and safe diet is much better than medicines for any kind of diseased patients. Its appraisable step of Punjab Food Authority for arranging these diet awareness camps to educate people about healthy and safe diet.
DG PFA Muhammad Usman said that the use of proper and healthy diet can control the diseases to spread. He further said that the provision of safe food is the utmost priority of PFA while good foods promote good health and help to protect against chronic disease.