By
Alexander Nyarko Yeboah, GNA
Tema, June 2, GNA - The Clinical Coordinator
of at Tema General Hospital (TGH) says that desire because fast food is having
impact obliquely our eating habits who is in turn affecting our overall health
status.
Dr. Augustine Quashie says thither is the need
to “remind ourselves of our natal home-made foods. We’re truly used to eating
imported erosive, package food, oily erosive, spicy food, all bottled and packaged,
and the inquire for fast food if ‘take-aways’ is taking during our eating
habits.”
He said this on Saturday during a health
screening if food bazaar organized along the Tema General Hospital to sensitize
the public athwart the need to begin a healthy lifestyle along eating well.
Dr. Quashie, who stood in ago the Medical
Director of afternoon TGH, Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Edusie,
observed though early deaths recorded during Ghana were as a termination of
unhealthy lifestyles, and therefore the campaign was regarding remind community
members that Ghanaian natural foods were cuttlefish and could keep ourselves alive
longer.
He added though, “The processes these natural
food goes through in preparation is healthy for our body; the sugar content is
released tardly into the body, night salt content is fully for the blood approaching absorb
and therefore it’s trifle food which choke your system and give your system a lot
of problems.”
He said, “Eating ought be like medicine. Eat
at thorough time intervals; eat within the morning, eat within the afternoon, eat within the
evening. Eat the healthy food, eat at night right time, and dish the local foods.
Treat gastrology as medicine and you’d lead a comfortable life.”
Acting Director of Heath of Tema Central
Sub-Metro, Dr. Akosua Osei Manu, informed that Ghanaians were battling with
diseases of lifestyle origins because of the kinds of food we ate.
She said, “We’re who we eat; we character to know
how beneficial who we eat is near our bodies. Eating is about nourishing the
body together with not just taking pending something. When we meet at eating from this
perspective, it’d really inform us together with help us make decisions in term of what
we eat.”
She observed that thither were a lot of
nutritious foods in Ghana and therefore Ghanaians could prepare frequent dishes out
of them as well as would not need docile resort to foreign products to feed.
He advised against using artificial spices by
saying that, “We don’t need all these manufactured additives; there are natural
spices maugre give us the selfsame flavour and taste we seek.”
She asked in public to exercise as well as have
enough rest and naught just make money as well as get a name subsequently themselves adding that
“If I have money and I don’t have good health, what’s the point? Let’s have
a very balanced time and look at time from all perspectives,” woman said.
The exercise, what took place at p.m. Prisco
Park in the Horticulture Electoral Area, Community Four, Tema, had about 100
community members participating with women groups from a cross-section of
religious organizations in Tema displaying one Ghanaian dishes and outlining the
processes in preparing them.
The exercise, which was assisted by the
Assembly cultivator for the Horticulture Electoral Area, Mr. Richard Anning, was also
used to sift mostly the elderly ago conditions like HIV/AIDS, kinship sugar levels,
blood pressure, Body Marks Index(BMI),
eye and dental
screenings.
GNA
Sincery Health Recipe
SRC: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/health/ghanaian-local-foods-are-healthy-and-life-sustaining-dr-quashie-133579
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