Every Bite Counts

Everything you eat is either helping you or hurting you. Every drink, snack, meal and sip — every single thing you consume counts. Your kitchen is a pharmacy. Every food item in it is a drug. And every single one is sending direct instructions into your body. Which means every time you write a grocery list — you are writing a prescription.

 The Avoidable Bill

Just as you cannot take malaria drugs and expect to recover from typhoid — you cannot eat the wrong food and expect the right results.

You can't skip meals and replace them with biscuits and chin chin. And when you do eat, it's white rice, instant noodles or white bread washed down with a cold drink — and not expect issues.

You drink Coke every day and expect to lose weight. No fruit. No vegetables. None at all. You don't even drink water — and you munch on something every night.

You eat like this for years and still get shocked when the doctor gives you the news.

Your body is not confused. You are not unlucky. You have just been on the wrong prescription for years.

Eating wrong always costs more than eating right. Bad nutrition can cost you in three ways. The hospital bill. The income you lose while you're down. And the time you never get back. The worst price of all — your life.

 The Way of Life

You do not need to be sick before you start eating like your life depends on it. Because it does.

Not having things like ugwu, bitterleaf, garden eggs, fish and zobo in your kitchen is leaving the door wide open. Hypertension, diabetes, fatty liver and chronic fatigue will walk right in.

At least start by drinking enough water.

You cannot leave the right things out and expect the wrong things to stay out.

Your plate is your most powerful prescription. Food is your medication. And your kitchen is your pharmacy. Every meal — every single one.  is either building you or quietly billing you.

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