THE GHANAIAN MEAL : A QUEST TO GET FIT?

Countries and cultures around the world are characterised not only by their language or beliefs but also by the very meals they take in. These meals, as ingrained in the fibre and lifestyle of the people, either tend to benefit or harm the fitness of them.


Here in Ghana, the quest to get fit keeps getting stronger and wider. but what stands missing is the quest to "eat fit". The eating habits of the average Ghanaian, not to talk of the meal compositions, is but an example which contradicts with  the health culture of theirs.


The traditional meals of Ghanaians range from high cholestrol foods to less vegetarian meals. Meals eaten without the concern of time factors; be it in the morning, noon or night.
It is said that eating tasty meals isn't eating healthy meals and that how tasty a meal is doesn't assure  the attainment of a healthy body.


The case of  Ghanaian meals cant be an exception. Meals such as fufu and palmnut soup, Kenkey and fish, tuozafi and kokonte contain high calories and cholesterols which demand fat burning exercises to dissolve. unfortunately these meals find themselves on the menu table of night food vendors as leading menus. 

With the increasing rate of premature death especially within the urban sectors, it is quiet wary to know that meals and their ingredients play a massive role in these deaths. Yes it may be argued that the Ghanaian dish is for the Ghanaian tommy but we also need t know that some of these dishes and the quantities taken are suicidal!