Nigerian eat a lot of food which they don’t know that are unclean or should I say unhealthy to their health. Below are some food Nigerians consume in excess which put our lives in danger.

1. Eba, Pounded yam And Fufu.

This is essentially just instantaneous carbohydrates (carbs) and calories with no actual nutrition. If you eat plenty of this and see your waste line rise, your risk of diabetes amplify and you life expectancy decrease! Eating much of this, will lead you to diabetes.

2. Fried plantain.

It’s sweet i understand, however do you understand what is sweeter? Your Life! Instead is sweeter.

Is better to have it boiled or roasted plantain to avoid raising your cholesterol degrees and put you in a coronary heart attack.

3. Stew.

Look at all that oil! The tastier the stew, the extra unhealthy it possibly is for you.

In addition to potentially contributing to cholesterol problems, it can also promote belly ulcers and coronary heart burn. Avoid it to have a correct night’s sleep free of heartburn.

4. Excessive Salt.

Salt is arguably one of the biggest health hazards that we as Nigerian face. We all want our food to be sweet and tasty. We put salt into what we consume specifically when we cook.

Some humans even add greater salt to the food after it has been cooked. I know many of My Reader’s add salt when they boil corn, Raise your hand if you add salt to your boiled corn?

Do you know that being a black character increases your hazard of high blood stress (a.k.a hypertension)? About 30-40% of all Nigerians have high blood pressure.

To put this into perspective, this is a very high wide variety and Nigeria is reported to have one of the perfect high of hypertension in Africa. In olden days salt was used as a preservative by way of our forefathers but now it has grow to be a common additive in many Nigerian dishes.

Eating a lot of salt makes your body retains water which will increase the blood pressure. A excessive blood strain is strongly related with coronary heart disease and stroke. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use salt at all. However, it should be used in moderation particularly as there are many foods that you can make besides adding salt.

Note that, there is already a lot of salt in many meals we eat. That seasonings you add to the stew or soup already has salt in it. Many processed foods especially canned ingredients already have salt as a preservative. Also be aware that bread, contains a salt which is used to make the dough rise.

5. Suya, Kilishi, and Red Meats.

I know that my readers can’t accept this. Those

However, there’s evidence that red meats are associated with sure cancers consisting of cancer of the colon (large intestine).

There is a big difference between red meats and processed meat.

Red meat refers to beef, pork and lamb– meals like hamburgers, steak, pork chops and roast lamb.

Processed are meat preserved through smoking, curing or salting, or with the aid of the addition of preservatives. Examples include hot puppies and sausages. The famous Kilishi is a kind of processed meat whilst Suya is charred meat. Why do we care about suya or charred foods, well its very necessary because heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic fragrant hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemicals shaped when muscle meat, along with beef, pork, fish, or poultry, is cooked the usage of high-temperature methods, such as pan frying or grilling without delay over an open flame In laboratory experiments, HCAs and PAHs have been determined to motive adjustments that may enlarge the chance of cancer. By the way, suya has a lot of oil too which makes it unhealthy!

6. Palm oil

Palm oil is popularly used in many Nigerian, i know all my readers are using palm. However, palm oil has been shown to be prosperous in saturated fats.

What are saturated fats? saturated fats are any oil that becomes thicker and semisolid at room temperature, palm oil is high in saturated fat. Saturated fats have been linked to coronary heart disease.

Palm oil carries 50% saturated fat. This is tons lower than the saturated fats contents of palm kernel oil and coconut oil.

Admittedly, palm oil has a lot of nutritional value, such as antioxidants. However, many health experts suggest that vegetable oils may additionally be a more healthy option than palm oil. But my question is, how do you put the vegetable oil in that beans?

7. Excessive suger

When I said sugar, I don’t mean the sugar cubes that you put in your garri or your tea. There is sugar in nearly everything. In fact, most foods that taste sweet have sugar.

Some ingredients have extra sugar than others. Be wary of sugar-sweetened liquids such as minerals.

A 35 cl bottle of ordinary mineral/soda consists of about 9 teaspoons of sugar, so just ingesting one of these bottles places you over your every day sugar limit.

A phrase to the wise, if a meals tastes sweet already, you possibly don’t need to add any more sugar to it. A high sugar food regimen is related with a higher threat of loss of life from heart ailment and additionally leads to diabetes and weight gain.

8. White bread and rice

Bread is eaten daily by Nigerians partly due to the fact it is cheap, already prepared and so can be eaten on the go. However, as we emerge as greater nutrition-conscious . we want to be conscious that when eaten in extra it may have health risks. The same goes for white rice. White bread and white rice are subtle carbohydrates. A slice of bread can incorporate as tons as one hundred forty kcal. Recall that depending on your dimension you may want only 1400–2000 kcal per day to maintain your weight. So if you eat 6 slices of bread you have eaten shut to half of of your whole wished energy for the day. If you can afford it, alternative white bread for brown/wheat bread. As for white rice, eat less. Eat more vegetables and protein than rice.

Please mind how you eat those food mentioned above.
don’t forget to share with your friends and family.

U are killing your Self if you continue Eating too much of this Nigeria Food