MFC Indigenous Eye Health Ambassador Neville Jetta shares key messages on the importance of following a healthy lifestyle by choosing water over sports drinks, eating healthy and keeping active. Neville also promotes the need for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes to get an eye check every year to prevent vision loss and blindness as part of the ‘Check Today, See Tomorrow’ diabetes eye care campaign.
Further information on the ‘Check Today, See Tomorrow’ diabetes eye care campaign visit Indigenous Eye Health, University of Melbourne at iehu.unimelb.edu.au or ‘Sports drinks are gammin!’ campaign visit VACCHO at vaccho.org.au/
Transcript:
'Hey you mob its Neville Jetta here from Melbourne Football Club
It’s important to keep fit, healthy and strong.
Think you need sports drinks to improve your performance? Think again. Sports drinks are gammin! - full of sugar your body doesn't need. Drink water you mob, eat healthy and get active, Especially if you have diabetes!
Did you know diabetes can affect your eyes as well?
It can damage your eyesight, making it hard to watch sport and even harder to play!
The best way to prevent this, is to have your eyes checked every year to protect your sight for years to come.
Remember, ‘Check Today, See Tomorrow’.