Artistes stage a street play, ‘Health ka Panchnama’, at Sukhna Lake on Sunday. Tribune photo: Pradeep Tewari

NGO SPEAK India, a society for promotion of ethical and affordable health care, today staged a street play ‘Health ka Panchnama’ to bring awareness about healthy lifestyle among the residents. Artistes from Impact Arts enacted the play. The street play was staged at the Sector 17 Plaza and Sukhna Lake. The play emphasised on the role of fruits and vegetables in the foods, regular exercises, plenty of water intake, adequate sleep, and ethics in every aspect of life while shunning quack remedies. The play also focused on how important it is to avoid diet consisting of junk foods like ice-creams, cakes, burger, noodles, coke, pasta, potato chips, etc, which leads to obesity and exposes to serious ailments like diabetes, heart ailments, hypertension, stroke, anemia and unproductive life in the long run. Dr R Kumar, president of the society, said the society had decided to spread awareness in an interesting manner by organising short plays in different parts of the city.—TNS

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