₦airaland Forum

Kobicove:
All the unnecessary fuss about food and drinks is not warranted as far as I am concerned cos none of us will leave this earth alive

Kobicove:
All the unnecessary fuss about food and drinks is not warranted as far as I am concerned cos none of us will leave this earth alive

ebohstep1:
so what do we do ? stop taking it all together?

nairalanda1:
Let's put it this way.

You want to leave the earth without spending millions of naira treating some lifestyle chronic disease, and being in severe pains at the same time, because you no fit control the bad food intake?

Kobicove:
All the unnecessary fuss about food and drinks is not warranted as far as I am concerned cos none of us will leave this earth alive

TechBaron:
You fit avoid soda finish, con die of simple headache.

Gotocourt:
Avoid soft drinks, alcohol and instant noodles 🤷🏿.

Kobicove:
All the unnecessary fuss about food and drinks is not warranted as far as I am concerned cos none of us will leave this earth alive

help9:
Wey the money to even drink the soda sef ….💁

Qwikkie:
In Nigeria, drinking soda is not just a habit, it's a culture. You go to a buka, there's cold soda on the table. You attend a party, the fridge is loaded with any cold soda. You're stressed at work, someone says "calm down, with something cold." We've normalised it so deeply that questioning it feels almost... rude.

Though nobody is telling that the sugar in those drinks is slowly and silently stacking up damage inside your body. And by the time you start to feel it, the harm has been building for years.
What Excess Sugar Actually Does to Your Body

The scary part is that sugar doesn't send you warning signs early. It quietly does its damage, and by the time your body raises an alarm, through fatigue, excess weight, or a doctor's result. the habit is already deeply rooted.

This is what's happening inside you with every excess sip:

Type 2 Diabetes: Nigeria has one of the highest diabetes rates in Africa. Excess sugar keeps your blood glucose spiking and crashing, wearing down your body's ability to manage insulin over time.

Obesity and weight gain: Sugary drinks add hundreds of empty calories that your body doesn't register as "full." You drink, you're still hungry, you eat and the cycle never breaks.

High blood pressure and heart disease: Sugar inflames your blood vessels and puts pressure on your heart. Hypertension is not just a "blood pressure thing" sugar is deeply connected. And in a country where hypertension is already rampant, this is not something to take lightly.

This Is Not About Suffering

Enjoyment is not the enemy. Ignorance is.

Many Nigerians are not drinking soda because they don't care about their health, they're drinking it because no one sat them down and explained what it does to the body over time, in plain language, without a lecture.

Your pancreas doesn't care that you were just trying to cool down in the afternoon heat. Your liver doesn't make exceptions because the party was fun. The body keeps an honest score even when we're not paying attention.

Start paying attention. Not with fear but with love for yourself and the people around you. Because the real enjoyment is being alive, healthy, and fully present for all the future parties, bukaterias, and cold evenings still ahead of you

naturalflow:
Warrenbuffet is almost 100,he takes 2 cans of coke everyday!

sonnie10:
You imagine eating bread with tea and sugar in morning
Afternoon, you ate rice and a bottle of soda
Dinner you added fufu and soup with a glass of of juice.
What you have not realized is that you have consumed the equivalent of one packet of sugar on that day. Sugar is converted to glucose during digestion and remains in the blood until acted upon.
Then the pancreatic cell start their process.
The unfortunate thing is that once your pancreas B cells are gone due to overwork of glucose regulation in your blood, you become insulin resistant. The B cellls are the cells that produce insulin.
What this means is sugar has no way of leaving your blood. Because it is insulin that helps the body cells to get glucose from the blood. Also, the blood is constantly too thick from too much glucose concentration and cannot flow well in your vessels. Remember also that the another function of the blood is to carry oxygen. The life of you organs depends on this oxygen.
As an analogy, imagine comparing water to honey flowing in pipe.
Thick blood is hard to flow and your heart will struggle to pump this thick blood. Remember, the function of the heart is to pump blood.
In the process of this struggle to pump, high blood pressure is developed. Remember that formula to calculate pressure in secondary school physics ( force / area). The more force the more pressure. Now you see why it is called high blood pressure. Not only that, the force exacted by the high pressure on tiny vessels will cause them to burst. Every material has an elastic limit , including the blood vessels. Those tiny vessels that burst first are often found in areas like eyes, heart, manhood, and intestines.
Eventually those organs will start to fall due to lack of blood supply. Deseases like blindness, neuropathy and heart failure sets in. That is why diabetes cause amputation. And wound that is hard to heal. If there is no adequate blood supply, wound cannot heal. A very small cut on the extremity like toes will remain and become gangrene.
Another condition is tiredness. That insulin the body is now lacking, it’s plays a vital role in how the cells produce energy.
Without insulin the cell cannot get glucose to produce energy. So the person is always feeling tired because they lack energy.
Let me stop here. The story of what sugar does to the body is much . I have not even gone into how they contribute to fatty liver, high cholesterol, and obesity.
Story plenty!

Sunshine34:
I created a post yesterday, but the mode did not deemed it fit of front page about Dubic malt which have just two cube of sugar.
Mynd44, post my Dubic malt now.

sonnie10:
You imagine eating bread with tea and sugar in morning
Afternoon, you ate rice and a bottle of soda
Dinner you added fufu and soup with a glass of of juice.
What you have not realized is that you have consumed the equivalent of one packet of sugar on that day. Sugar is converted to glucose during digestion and remains in the blood until acted upon.
Then the pancreatic cell start their process.
The unfortunate thing is that once your pancreas B cells are gone due to overwork of glucose regulation in your blood, you become insulin resistant. The B cellls are the cells that produce insulin.
What this means is sugar has no way of leaving your blood. Because it is insulin that helps the body cells to get glucose from the blood. Also, the blood is constantly too thick from too much glucose concentration and cannot flow well in your vessels. Remember also that the another function of the blood is to carry oxygen. The life of you organs depends on this oxygen.
As an analogy, imagine comparing water to honey flowing in pipe.
Thick blood is hard to flow and your heart will struggle to pump this thick blood. Remember, the function of the heart is to pump blood.
In the process of this struggle to pump, high blood pressure is developed. Remember that formula to calculate pressure in secondary school physics ( force / area). The more force the more pressure. Now you see why it is called high blood pressure. Not only that, the force exacted by the high pressure on tiny vessels will cause them to burst. Every material has an elastic limit , including the blood vessels. Those tiny vessels that burst first are often found in areas like eyes, heart, manhood, and intestines.
Eventually those organs will start to fall due to lack of blood supply. Deseases like blindness, neuropathy and heart failure sets in. That is why diabetes cause amputation. And wound that is hard to heal. If there is no adequate blood supply, wound cannot heal. A very small cut on the extremity like toes will remain and become gangrene.
Another condition is tiredness. That insulin the body is now lacking, it’s plays a vital role in how the cells produce energy.
Without insulin the cell cannot get glucose to produce energy. So the person is always feeling tired because they lack energy.
Let me stop here. The story of what sugar does to the body is much . I have not even gone into how they contribute to fatty liver, high cholesterol, and obesity.
Story plenty!

Kobicove:
All the unnecessary fuss about food and drinks is not warranted as far as I am concerned cos none of us will leave this earth alive

help9:
Wey the money to even drink the soda sef ….💁

sonnie10:
You imagine eating bread with tea and sugar in morning
Afternoon, you ate rice and a bottle of soda
Dinner you added fufu and soup with a glass of of juice.
What you have not realized is that you have consumed the equivalent of one packet of sugar on that day. Sugar is converted to glucose during digestion and remains in the blood until acted upon.
Then the pancreatic cell start their process.
The unfortunate thing is that once your pancreas B cells are gone due to overwork of glucose regulation in your blood, you become insulin resistant. The B cellls are the cells that produce insulin.
What this means is sugar has no way of leaving your blood. Because it is insulin that helps the body cells to get glucose from the blood. Also, the blood is constantly too thick from too much glucose concentration and cannot flow well in your vessels. Remember also that the another function of the blood is to carry oxygen. The life of you organs depends on this oxygen.
As an analogy, imagine comparing water to honey flowing in pipe.
Thick blood is hard to flow and your heart will struggle to pump this thick blood. Remember, the function of the heart is to pump blood.
In the process of this struggle to pump, high blood pressure is developed. Remember that formula to calculate pressure in secondary school physics ( force / area). The more force the more pressure. Now you see why it is called high blood pressure. Not only that, the force exacted by the high pressure on tiny vessels will cause them to burst. Every material has an elastic limit , including the blood vessels. Those tiny vessels that burst first are often found in areas like eyes, heart, manhood, and intestines.
Eventually those organs will start to fall due to lack of blood supply. Deseases like blindness, neuropathy and heart failure sets in. That is why diabetes cause amputation. And wound that is hard to heal. If there is no adequate blood supply, wound cannot heal. A very small cut on the extremity like toes will remain and become gangrene.
Another condition is tiredness. That insulin the body is now lacking, it’s plays a vital role in how the cells produce energy.
Without insulin the cell cannot get glucose to produce energy. So the person is always feeling tired because they lack energy.
Let me stop here. The story of what sugar does to the body is much . I have not even gone into how they contribute to fatty liver, high cholesterol, and obesity.
Story plenty!

zionic:
ZOBO[/i] is very good

[i]beer is better

Kobicove:
I wonder o!

Whether you drink soda or not you will still die