…Advocates for Quality Food Intake
The Emeritus Professor Musbau Akanji has linked constant overfeeding to premature death, emphasising that excessive food intake is harmful to health.
Delivering lecture at the maiden edition of Pre-Ramadan Lecture being organised by the Kwara State University Muslim Community Association-Women’s Wing on Sunday, 23rd February, 2025, the Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry recommended small but quality food at regular intervals for healthy living.
Professor Akanji, who spoke on the topic “Family Nutrition During and After Ramadan”, advised fasting people to break their fast with fluid food for the smooth movement of the food and easy metabolism.
He explained that too much and constant feeding gives the body much and serious task to process the food which he said will take place within the period of seven hours, adding that many people do not allow their internal organs that are responsibile for the processing of the food to rest before they consume another food there by putting more pressure on the body system.
He however enjoined people to abstain from the fast and sugarcoated food and drinks, saying that they do more harm than the good to the body system, especially the adult who are within the age bracket of 30 years and above.
He called for the need to develop positive attitude towards the constant consumption of fruits, water and other natural juice.
Professor Akanji who said the last time he took soft drinks was in 1979, warned that soft drinks, energy drinks and refined white sugar as well as fast food do more harm to our body than the good.
Earlier in his good will message, the KWASU Vice Chancellor, Professor Shaykh Luqman Jimoh appreciated the guest speaker for doing justice to the topic and pledged that KWASU, as an institution, will look into the possibility of imbibing some of the advice given by the guest lecturer.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the KWASU Muslim Community, Dr Usman Adam, thanked the Women’s Wing for coming up with this laudable initiative and described the event as a step in a right direction.
The Amira of the KWASU Muslim Women’s Wing, Hajia Mariam Aladodo said the event featured the presentation of lecture and donation of money to 10 selected widows who are KWASU staff.
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