Why Do "Modern" Africans Die Younger?

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Dodzi 11 years ago

They hav made it luk like akple,fufu,konkonte,roasted yam,etc naturally grown fruits n vegs are for primitiv pple.today most includin me are sick n weak as a result of too much intake of fast foods,pizzas, poison(energy)drink ...
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They hav made it luk like akple,fufu,konkonte,roasted yam,etc naturally grown fruits n vegs are for primitiv pple.today most includin me are sick n weak as a result of too much intake of fast foods,pizzas, poison(energy)drinks, genetically modified crops.everytin we eat is artificial even meat.my question is, how do we get rid of this artificial from our farms n markets n replace wit the natural food.thank u
POPPY POPPY 11 years ago

INDEED OUR NATURAL FOODS ABSOLUTELY PROTECTS OUR HEALTH BUT THE NARROW MINDEDNESS AND LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE OF THE BLACKMAN HAS MADE HIM ABANDON HIS FOOD FOR THE WHITEMAN'S FOOD EVEN THO THIS HAS LED TO MASSIVE DETERIORATIO ...
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INDEED OUR NATURAL FOODS ABSOLUTELY PROTECTS OUR HEALTH BUT THE NARROW MINDEDNESS AND LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE OF THE BLACKMAN HAS MADE HIM ABANDON HIS FOOD FOR THE WHITEMAN'S FOOD EVEN THO THIS HAS LED TO MASSIVE DETERIORATION IN OUR HEALTH AND ULTIMATE EARLY DEATH....THE BLACKMAN IS SO SO STUPID.
Bran 11 years ago

The black woman is over eating !

The black woman is over eating !
adzovi-uk 11 years ago

of course eating grandma's food is considered 'local and primitive' by ghanaians, especially those who think living in the cites means eating western garbage. gone were the days when cassava with kontomire or mankani with ko ...
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of course eating grandma's food is considered 'local and primitive' by ghanaians, especially those who think living in the cites means eating western garbage. gone were the days when cassava with kontomire or mankani with kontomire were the order of the day and very healthy and delicious.
John Agyekum Diawuo KUFFUOR 11 years ago

Africans most often do not trust themselves and what God has richly endowed them with and turn to look at and appreciate the junk that is produced in the so-alled developed countries, thinking that abandoning our ancesters' w ...
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Africans most often do not trust themselves and what God has richly endowed them with and turn to look at and appreciate the junk that is produced in the so-alled developed countries, thinking that abandoning our ancesters' way of life is civilisation. How many of us and or our children today will eat "konkonte" and or "Tuo Zafi" popularly called T.Z. We despise them and have even give derogatory names such as " face the wall" and Africa in danger" respectively to them. We crave for cholestrol filled junk like fried rice and canned stuff to show that we have evolved. As the writer mentioned in his article with regard to our education, we have become stupidly overeducated to the extend that we dislike what God has given to us and by extension our very self. We woul rather promote those enslaved and later on colonised us and dance to their tunes by swallowing all the rubbish the heap on us. Like that we will all die out and they will naturally and intelligentgly come and usurp what we fail to appreciate and continue to call us stupid. Let us continue to eat large portions of the junk and madke things quickly easier for our masters.
The Stallion 11 years ago

If you go to any restaurant in Accra and ask what food they have, what you hear is: "We have rice, jollof rice..."
My friend, go to another restaurant and ask the same question; they will tell you white rice, fried rice... M ...
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If you go to any restaurant in Accra and ask what food they have, what you hear is: "We have rice, jollof rice..."
My friend, go to another restaurant and ask the same question; they will tell you white rice, fried rice... Move to another restaurant, the same. Why always "rice" to begin with?

In one restaurant, I ordered a plate of salad. The next thing I saw was the lady emptying something from a can. I asked : "What is that." She said: "I'm preparing your salad".
"Whaaat!!!" I yelled. "Come on, get clear from my face."
I thought she was going to cut green leaves, tomatoes, etc to prepare my salad. Emptying garbage from a Chinese can into my stomach?
It seems like the problem is worst in Ghana. Fast food restaurants are crowded like Makola market.
In particular, the advent of "fried rice" in Ghana has killed millions prematurely. Why can't you eat any other food, but rice?
Peter Ocansey 11 years ago

It is apparent that our modern generation prefer the so called perfumed rice,canned foods and the other western products which contain a lot of toxic chemicals that are detrimental to our health to the local nutritious dishes ...
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It is apparent that our modern generation prefer the so called perfumed rice,canned foods and the other western products which contain a lot of toxic chemicals that are detrimental to our health to the local nutritious dishes. God save the "Modern educated-illiterate Africans".
afadi nsro 11 years ago

Alcohol is soo ingrained in our culture.esp.AKPETESHIE

Alcohol is soo ingrained in our culture.esp.AKPETESHIE
Yabadabadoo 11 years ago

Food: too many chemicals
Alcohol: Too much alcohol consumption
Water: Too many chemical additives
Stress: Too much stress due to our modern lifestyles.
Healthcare: Poor healthcare and medical
delivery.
Exercise: Lack ...
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Food: too many chemicals
Alcohol: Too much alcohol consumption
Water: Too many chemical additives
Stress: Too much stress due to our modern lifestyles.
Healthcare: Poor healthcare and medical
delivery.
Exercise: Lack of proper and sufficient exercise.
Disease: Importation of other illnesses not native to our lands.
Yabadabadoo 11 years ago

Environmental Pollution:
Look at the galamsey miners and the amount of environmental pollution and degradation going on.
People work in factories owned by Chinese and other foreigners where health concerns of works is ignor ...
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Environmental Pollution:
Look at the galamsey miners and the amount of environmental pollution and degradation going on.
People work in factories owned by Chinese and other foreigners where health concerns of works is ignored.
The drive to be rich overnight. there is no way one could expect to live long.
Daniel Omari 11 years ago

Thanks for sharing this wisdom

Thanks for sharing this wisdom
akosua 11 years ago

african's God has blessed us alot but we don't value what we have.why are africans suffering all these kind of western diseases now adays more than the western people themselves?let's stick to our local foods,i prefer my MOMO ...
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african's God has blessed us alot but we don't value what we have.why are africans suffering all these kind of western diseases now adays more than the western people themselves?let's stick to our local foods,i prefer my MOMONI and AMENIKITIKITI which smells to PORK,BEEF,CORNEDBEEF ect,ect.God help us
MENSAH 11 years ago

PORK,BEEF,CORNED BEEF,GOAT,SHEEP are all JUNK.Please,eat RABBIT RATHER.
Those animals have lot of BAD CHOLESTROL and not good for your health,eating them always.Rabbit has less fat and therefore less cholesrtrol in it.THAT I ...
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PORK,BEEF,CORNED BEEF,GOAT,SHEEP are all JUNK.Please,eat RABBIT RATHER.
Those animals have lot of BAD CHOLESTROL and not good for your health,eating them always.Rabbit has less fat and therefore less cholesrtrol in it.THAT IS WHY IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN CHICKEN,GOAT,SHEEP,PORK ETC.In CANADA the price of RABBIT(1 KG) is about 3 x the price of CHICKEN at the same weight.JUST IMAGINE.Be selective in eating FISH.Go to this website:
about.com AND YOU WOULD FIND MERCURY EATING FISH,being sited in 4 different categories based on the amount of mercury intake of each.From that chronological order,you would know the exact fishes to eat.Example,TILLAPIA IS REALY GOOD TO EAT,BUT NOT THE SALTED ONE.That is my advise to my fellow Ghanaians.A word to the wise is enough.MAY GOD BE WITH YOU ALL,IN JESUS' NAME,
AMEN.
Floating Voter 11 years ago

The whole reason why we die young in my candid opinion is that WE ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SYSTEM OF THINGS. I mean modernity and growing population obliges us to move away from our ancient and native life styles and diet ...
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The whole reason why we die young in my candid opinion is that WE ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF SYSTEM OF THINGS. I mean modernity and growing population obliges us to move away from our ancient and native life styles and diet that help our ancester to live beyond 70 years. However we are not scientifically apt and discipline enough to attain and maintain the modern life style that makes the western world live up to 80 years and beyond.In the western scientific world 80years is now very common.
Dr Robert K Glah 11 years ago

Poor sanitation in Africa is to blame.
The people in the Western world including Africans live longer than native Africans confined to native home land all the years round.

Western life or longevity is due to sanitation a ...
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Poor sanitation in Africa is to blame.
The people in the Western world including Africans live longer than native Africans confined to native home land all the years round.

Western life or longevity is due to sanitation and medical aid. Of course, native Africans lack that sanitation and medical aid.
So do not blame all on the change of food Africans eat and change of lifestyle
MENSAH 11 years ago

Good sanitary condition and adequate medical care are vital for our longevity.You are very right.The Chinese and Indian medications are killing you guys.Medications from these TWO NATIONS do not qualify the test in CANADA.So ...
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Good sanitary condition and adequate medical care are vital for our longevity.You are very right.The Chinese and Indian medications are killing you guys.Medications from these TWO NATIONS do not qualify the test in CANADA.So they do not exist over here.They are consficated and destroyed on arrival at the port of entry.But unfortunately,that are killing my people in Ghana and Africa,as a whole.
The sanitary condition in Africa is realy bad.We have to do something about it to curb diseases and sickness that take our lives too early.JUST LOOK AT ACCRA & LAGOS.AFRICA HAS TO OPEN HER EYES.WE ARE STILL SLEEPING.
CITIZEN ONE 11 years ago

That was a good header and topic for discussion, but like I suspected everybody was going to buy into this idiotic and unjustified blaming of western culture.

I don't know if there really is a God, but if he exists, I wond ...
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That was a good header and topic for discussion, but like I suspected everybody was going to buy into this idiotic and unjustified blaming of western culture.

I don't know if there really is a God, but if he exists, I wonder what he planted in our black brains. ILLOGICUS!

First and foremost long life is not tantamount to good health. One can be as sick as a dog and outlive a very healthy person who happens to contract a simple disease.

Secondly, as underdeveloped countries, we do not have time to make accommodations for the next generation, hence with population growth old and new compete for everything even oxygen, incidentally the older sick African has perhaps adapted to certain deficiencies and diseases, better than the newer fresher breed. If you people bothered to do research based on years of data, you will probably find solutions and answers, but heck we have to wait for the very villain we so love to despise to bring us all the answers and cure. Ungrateful living & dead!

Africa's problem was created by Africans, but can only be solved by Western civilization and culture. The only Africans who can solve Africa's problems such as I, are called all sorts of names, just because we like to think logically. Just listen to the illogic of the frustrated writer, but we all regard him as an intelligent African. There are so many of his kind, and therein lies our problems.

Incidentally some years back, I started to notice that many of the Ghanaians I ran into had gone through some genetic transformations. The women seem prettier and the men, so incredibly uglier. The men seemed lazier, and the young girls so energetic and industrious. Most of all, their IQ's seem to surpass that of the men, and oh yes, they have become greater in population too.

Please mister smart African, there are a myriad of reasons far beyond this concocted conversions with some 80 year old woman about why the life expectancy of a typical African has shifted so dramatically, if in fact your assessment is factual and not some random occurrence or observation.
Paul Amuna 11 years ago

Yes, I found your caption interesting but you have not really answered your own questions and you leave me confused as to the whole purpose and focus of your article.

Yes, I found your caption interesting but you have not really answered your own questions and you leave me confused as to the whole purpose and focus of your article.
KOMKOM 11 years ago

good piece thanks

good piece thanks

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