Listen to OKWUID - Is Nigerian Food Killing Us? (PD 2)


Young Nigerians discuss the impact of modern Nigerian food on health and lifestyle.


https://soundcloud.com/okwuid/okwuid-is-nigerian-food-filling-us-pd-2

Interesting!

Whats killing us is not the food but change in lifestyle. Please lets not demonize the food.

1. After certain age metabolism slows down and what is normally processed into energy for muscle becoms fat for tissues. We dont exercise to keep the metabolism burning.

2. Intake of impurities and toxins, anti-bodies. What is benefit of beer to health? None! Yet we consume bottles of beer everyday, seven days a week. What is benefit of alcohol spirit to health? None! At any gathering bottles of assorted spirits have become status symbol. We pose and take pictures to be seen guzzling bottles of toxins.

3. Insufficient intake of water. Water is expensive so we ration it and end up with less than recommended daily intake.

4. Insufficient sleep. Loss of power leads to heat and trapped high temperature in living space. Due to security concern we do not open windows or doors, leading to very poor ventilation and poor beathing pattern that weakens the lungs.

5. Add to above, exhaust fumes from generators and road vehicles entering and clogging lungs and bronchial passage.

These are just few examples out of many. Our food is good, our living habits are poor. So the body becomes defenseless and the immunity has been weakened already in the daily toil that a small sickness end up snuffing out life.

I also think portion size is a big thing we need to educate ourselves on.

BabaRamota1980:
Whats killing us is not the food but change in lifestyle. Please lets not demonize the food.

1. After certain age metabolism slows down and what is normally processed into energy for muscle becoms fat for tissues. We dont exercise to keep the metabolism burning.

2. Intake of impurities and toxins, anti-bodies. What is benefit of beer to health? None! Yet we consume bottles of beer everyday, seven days a week. What is benefit of alcohol spirit to health? None! At any gathering bottles of assorted spirits have become status symbol. We pose and take pictures to be seen guzzling bottles of toxins.

3. Insufficient intake of water. Water is expensive so we ration it and end up with less than recommended daily intake.

4. Insufficient sleep. Loss of power leads to heat and trapped high temperature in living space. Due to security concern we do not open windows or doors, leading to very poor ventilation and poor beathing pattern that weakens the lungs.

5. Add to above, exhaust fumes from generators and road vehicles entering and clogging lungs and bronchial passage.

These are just few examples out of many. Our food is good, our living habits are poor. So the body becomes defenseless and the immunity has been weakened already in the daily toil that a small sickness end up snuffing out life.

Portion size is important

Portion size is very important, I can’t eat more than three pieces of meat in a meal