The Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria(CIIN) has charged insurance professionals in the country to pay special attention to their physical and mental fitness just as Health is essential to life.
The president of the institute, Mr. Edwin Igbiti, while giving the advice at the 2023 CIIN Fitness Walk held between Jibowu and Obanikoro area of Lagos, at the weekend, noted that, the annual Fitness Walk is a great avenue for the industry to exercise, merry, and ease off the stress of office work.
Health and Fitness, he said, are like the two sides of a coin, adding that, one must remain fit to maintain good Health.
In today’s contemporary world, he noted that, it has become all the more essential that “we maintain our Health and physique. Health is the well-being of the physical and mental state of a person who has no diseases or illnesses. Fitness, on the other hand, describes the level of physical activities a person can do on a day-to-day basis.
“An average healthy person can do all of their daily work in a generally positive state of mind. Any physical activity, like walking, running, and swimming is a part of the exercise.”
There is a common proverb that says, “Health is Wealth.” There is nothing a Healthy person cannot do when they have put their mind to it. A sickly person, on the opposite side, cannot carry out their daily chores without being exhausted, let alone extra work.
Stressing that physical fitness plays an important role in one’s life, to keep the body fit, he urged insurance stakeholders to do regular exercises and have a proper diet of healthy foods, noting that, ‘in the absence of an active exercise routine and diet, we become lazy and may gain weight.’
