23 YEAR OLD BANKER DIES OF HYPERTENSION

It is no longer news to say that chronic diseases are quite rampant as it is not just meant for the old alone but also the young. I recently had a situation of a 23 year old single female Banker diagnosed of hypertension, my secondary school classmate some years back died at the age of 29 of partial stroke and many more outside there due to our care free attitude towards life. Do you know that 70 – 80% of the causes of chronic diseases are as a result of what we consume (Diet)? Looking at our present society, we are so much addicted to artificial meals, junk meals and bad consumption of various meals.

The human body contains 73 trillion cells and scientist have discovered that by the time we are 25-50 years old, we lose about 10000 cells on a daily basis. By the time we reach 50 years and above we would have lost about 50 million cells and that’s the reason we end up in the sick zone. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that for you to have good health, there should be a percentage of classes of food to be consumed on a daily bases to avoid Chronic Diseases but we have turned the pyramid of meal upside down thereby, endangering our lives/health at an early age.

Let’s take a critical look at the following below:

50% Fat and Carbohydrate : We eat a lot of Okele, Yam, Indomie and other Starchy foods. This is dangerous to our health.

30% Proteins: We also eat more of egg, red meat, milk, chicken and Turkey. These are dangerous to our health because of cholesterol.

15% Fruits and Vegetables: We eat little or none of this. How many of us consume fruits on a daily basis and this are one of the reasons we fall sick and tired regularly.

5% Whole Grains: We also eat little of these so our cells lack lipids and sterols. Examples of whole grains are: wheat, rice bran and soya.

CORRECT PYRAMID

5% FAT AND CARBOHYDRATE: Eat little. It is dangerous to health. The end product of Carbohydrate is Sugar.

15% PROTEIN: Eat little. Protein has high cholesterol which is dangerous to health.

30% FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Eat often. It contains vitamins and minerals which is essential to good health. This helps to prevent sickness and diseases.

50% WHOLE GRAINS: Eat often. It contains lipids and sterols which feed the cells and help to make them vibrant.

This might be hard to believe but we as humans don’t actually age, we don’t get sick and we don’t even get diseases OUR CELLS DO. Our body’s health depends on our cell’s health. So to slow down aging, limit sickness and prevent diseases, we must protect and properly feed our cells. We must try to increase the death rate of an average Nigerian from 38 years according to World Health Organization (WHO) to 70 years only if we do what is right and it starts with our individual self.

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