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Prof. Yorke reacts to Dr Lamptey's 'the size of banku you eat shouldn't be bigger than the size of an egg' statement

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  • Kwame 2 months ago

    Why use "hyperboles" to communicate to to public on important issues like public nutrition? Who does that? And when people interpret what you have communicated, then you seek refuge under using hyperboles. Theatre of the absu ...
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  • Agya Koo 2 months ago

    Gyae gyimii no. Kwasea kwa. Whenever serious issues are being discussed you bring in this trumutrumu nonsense. Who cares about your gyimii practice.

  • Fame 2 months ago

    She must be referring to eggs from a different continent, not Africa

  • IN FACT, GHANA HAS ILLITERACY PROBLEMS 2 months ago

    The size of your Banku should not be bigger than an egg quite easily says small Banku. If you eat 2 kg Banku with peppers and small amount of fish regularly, you’ll end up with Diabetes and Stroke some time later.

  • WaLL 2 months ago

    Amount of single food consume by one person in ghana absurd.No balance diet .Same food ,same size all day..We have lot of diabetes ,fibroid and other diseases generated by excessive intake of carbohydrates food!!

  • Me - Me 2 months ago

    Next time she must put her statement in better ways that will drive understanding to the audience and also stimulate the desire to control certain food intake in the audience and not use the size of an egg as hyperbole. It wi ...
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  • Yaw Wontumi 2 months ago

    all these third world medics. Our grandfathers has been enjoying their banku long ago. These tribal idiots with the help of an ugly midget hybrid akyem weed smoking ape akuffo addo are still denigrating our dishes. Why not ...
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  • Joe Wise 2 months ago

    Hɛɛɛ, wagyimi saa?, go ahead and eat all banku and akple as much as you can fill your stomach, okay?, Gyimifour, dwan

  • Okponglo Guy 2 months ago

    Where is our Kontomire, Agushie, Melons, Okro(a), Garden Eggs etc? We have the healthiest foods. Why list Tofu, and Lentils and not mention our local stuff.

    The doctors must also campaign the excessive use of pesticides ...
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  • GH8 2 months ago

    I m wondering o he never mentioned any of our foods o. No akple, fufu, yam, cassava, plaintain, banana, and most of our vegetables. What is going on among our western trained scientists and nutritionist?

  • WaLL 2 months ago

    .He not Ghanaian.Last Name as Yorke not Ghanaians ,Akuffo Addo daughter’s husband I supposed!!

  • Ariel 2 months ago

    The problem is that our professionals don't research and adapt their knowledge to African and ghanaian standards. They read western books and that is all. Even if the Ghanaian writes a book, it is a photocopy of the white man ...
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  • WaLL 2 months ago

    You could realized by His last name not Ghanaian breed.UK by origin elevated to That position by Akuffo Addo gov’t .We have a lot of ingredients like ‘Agushie,inkotomre,kwasusuaa,egg-plant(ngyaadua,) so many to go with o ...
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  • Ph 2 months ago

    May she was referring to the egg of an ostrich

  • Jack Toronto 2 months ago

    Salaries of doctors must also not better than that of a teacher

  • Oklemekuku 2 months ago

    Guess she meant ostrich egg.

  • Kwesi 2 months ago

    Then, am finished!

  • Donatus 2 months ago

    What is the point speaking to people in a language they do not understand?

  • Shit hole 2 months ago

    So much confusion in morden day medicine anyone woke from a dream and talk trash ... meanwhile when they make mistakes they turn around to justify it ....no wonder a country with an acceptable mortality death rate 30%... who ...
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  • Badu 2 months ago

    Then her hyperbole backfired

  • Ghanabi Kofi 2 months ago

    Window dressing after a big time guff!!!!!

  • Kaplorkor 2 months ago

    Balanced or unbalanced diet, "all die be die". Eat all the balanced diets , death is awaiting you. So, what are we talking about. 2 ; 67; 220 years or what have you ?. All die be die. Offa, death is in the corner to level you ...
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  • Water Yam 2 months ago

    I know one guy who rolls several balls of banku,fat ones like size 4 football. Africans eat a lot because we do man power jobs

  • Gborlahn 2 months ago

    There might be a problem with the way we eat here in Ghana. We heap banku in the form of a mountain and clear everything at a sitting. Or yam or just name it. The Chinese eat rice with a lot of vegetables. Westerners, from th ...
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  • Clifford 2 months ago

    You go explain, explain, explain Taya.

  • Hey 2 months ago

    Copy and paste doctors. No discoveries.

  • WaLL 2 months ago

    Great advice as diabetic

  • Ghanaian 2 months ago

    I believe these write ups are directly for persons with diabetes and those exposed to the conditions. Can one imagine a fisherman or mason or carpenter or an shs form one student eating a ball of kenkey the size of an egg, or ...
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  • Edward Wiredu 2 months ago

    She means well. Doctor Lampley is my doctor and she knows what she is talking about. As a diabetic im advised by doctors abroad to either fast most part of the day or reduce my meal size and time to the barest minimum.
    Her ...
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  • Ex-Pope 2 months ago

    BANKU LOGIC

    These experts are confused because they've chosen to step into a territory that is clearly out of their area of expertise. When it comes to matters pertaining to bank and eggs, that should always be deferred to ...
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  • Atadikatsa 2 months ago

    Prof whatever just stop the lies. The actual statement should be "the size of banku you eat shouldn't be bigger than the size of one's own HEAD " . If any it should be the same size of your own head but not bigger than it. T ...
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  • David? 2 months ago

    Head? Are you building a castle in your stomach?

  • Kow 2 months ago

    Too much Banku is bad. You can get diabetes

  • Nabb 2 months ago

    How can I understand what ur explaining with this big terminology

  • Fuseini 2 months ago

    Are you now Roberta's spokesperson?
    Allow her to speak for herself and clarify if she meant Lizard eggs or Dabodabo eggs.

  • Fuseini 2 months ago

    All these stuff on nutrition are well explained in the Integrated Science Textbook of SHS. Our children are better educated now.

  • Nana 2 months ago

    In other words the good Prof has just diplomatically told us that Dr. Lamptey goofed big time.

  • Naa Adorkor 2 months ago

    Dr Lamptey draws attention to the fact that the average adult, especially those with sedentary jobs are overeating. Overeating has become part of the regular lifestyle, and the associated trajectory of obesity and associated ...
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  • Kwasi 2 months ago

    Knowledge gained must be explained well otherwise it will be interpreted to be madness

  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 2 months ago

    DR. LAMPTEY IS A FOOL INDEED. WHERE DID HE GET THAT NOTION FROM ? SHAME ON HIM. WHERE DID HE GET HIS SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM ? SILLY ASSHOLE !!!

  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 2 months ago

    DR. LAMPTEY IS A FOOL INDEED. WHERE DID HE GET THAT NOTION FROM ? SHAME ON HIM. WHERE DID HE GET HIS SCIENCE EDUCATION FROM ? SILLY ASSHOLE !!!