A few of my relatives have already been taken
ill and I want to step back; when I weighed 85 kg a few
years back I stopped cooking starch for a meal and went
to the street for food that was healthy and balanced
rather than stay at home and make myself food that will
make me fall sick because I cannot afford chicken, meat
and fish. All the people that speak the ‘Ngemba
language’ eat a stable dish of pounded coco yams and
yellow soup. Kernel oil used for the preparation is high
in cholesterol tantamount to high blood pressure thus
disease control becomes my watch word, high cholesterol
blocks your arteries and veins from pumping blood to
the heart. We talk a lot about diabetes a condition
characterized by increase blood sugar levels typical in
tribes that eat corn flour as a daily staple, arthritis,
rheumatism, fibroids, dialysis and hypertension. My
father suffered the first stroke and survived but the
second stroke took his life as the Doctor had warned.
Taking care of yourself and staying safe is prestigious; to
be forewarned is to be forearmed, prevention is better
than cure.
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