In order to stay healthy, people need to be
mindful of what they eat. Every food has its
own effect on the body, and there are
certain foods that can be too much for the
body to handle or over stretch it particularly
when one is getting older.
Consultant Endocrinologist, University of
Abuja Teaching Hospital, Prof. Felicia
Anumah said as one ages there are changes
that occur in the body which push it
towards disease naturally.
She said if we don’t want to end up that
way, then we must change behavior at
some point, “whether you have diabetes or
not or there is diabetes in your family or not
, as you age you need to begin to reduce the
amount of oil, sugary things and salt you
take, because with age, your blood sugar
will naturally rise and there are certain
changes in the blood vessels that will make
them get blocked.”
She advised that oil should be taken in small
amounts no matter what type it is, adding
that soups with too much oil are very
unhealthy.
She also said it is not the name of the food
that is important but the amount or
quantity of the food, explaining that if you
take too much of different foods at once it
is bad for the health and work done is zero.
Another food to reduce the intake of is beef,
she said this contains a lot of bad oil. “As
you age, reduce the amount of beef that you
take. If you want to eat chicken, remove the
skin because the skin contains bad oil.
Those who say the skin is the sweetest part
need to be careful.
“When the bad oil in your blood is too high,
it blocks the blood vessels, particularly the
ones to the heart ,the ones to the brain, and
the ones to the legs particularly for people
who have diabetes,” she said.
The expert said there is need to change
behavior or lifestyle at some point, saying if
one wants to be healthy at 40 you start to
do your change at 20. “Because if you wait
till you are 40 years old, some damages
would have already taken place. So this
changes should start as early as possible,”
she advised.
Prof. Anumah also decried the practice by
parents who buy their children ice cream,
chocolates or whatever they ask for saying
they are unknowingly killing them slowly.
She said:“From the beginning, you have to
teach your children to eat right so that
when they are adults, they wouldn’t depart
from it. I did a project on diabetes
prevention in secondary schools and
worked with over 20 secondary schools in
the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Whenever
I visit these schools during break, I see
them with doughnuts and bottles of coke
,even day students who come from their
homes are given money by their parents to
buy doughnuts and coke.”
She said parents have become so lazy that
they cannot prepare healthy food and put in
containers for their children to take to
school. Warning that we are looking for
trouble because Nigeria does not have the
capacity to handle the consequence, and the
earlier we make these changes the better
for us. www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/health/diet-foods-you-should-reduce-as-you-age/145030.html?platform=hootsuite

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