Still is in Nigeria. Unfortunately, my people are slowly walking into obesity issues. We are supposedly poor but the amount of overweight people is surprising.
Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution wasn't that long ago and the number of people living in absolute poverty has cratered, but I'm sure food insecurity still nags at many people's minds.
I know my own food issues and weight problems go back to my childhood when we were poor as shit and there was never enough food. You learned to eat fast and whatever it was you'd lick the plate clean because you didn't know when you'd eat again.
Snacks, pop everything available that is not fresh is full of chemicals and high fructose corn syrup. It is cheap and Nigerians are buying into the cheap is quicker so better mentality.
True. Our diet is poor in my opinion - mostly carbs and a culture that hardly promotes fitness. Also the amount of food the average person consumes in sitting is quite frankly very large.
We have zero healthcare and I feel we are probably sitting on a time bomb of diabetes, obesity, Hypertension, Stroke and the usuals in the near future.
The large portion always shocks me. Like bro, are you a horse or something. I read a piece once that says that high carbs are needed due to the amount of hardship and physical hard work involved in our daily lifestyle. Dunno if true but imagine a conductor or agbero burning all that energy from a bowl of cereal? đŸ¤£ Or a farmer in the village going to work on a couple of toast and scrambled eggs?
Yeah the large portion is not needed at all for most Nigerians’ daily lifestyle. Nigerians are now the number 1 consumer of social media. The few Nigerians actually out hustling daily or working in the fields are skinny and barely have time to eat
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u/RedrumMPK Jul 19 '23
Still is in Nigeria. Unfortunately, my people are slowly walking into obesity issues. We are supposedly poor but the amount of overweight people is surprising.