Gert van der Hoek
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Ghana has aprox. 26 million inhabitants, 4 million of them are diabetics, this is about 15%. Interesting diet advice.
8 November 2015
Dr. Kaku Kyiamah, an Industrialist has expressed worry about the high rate of diabetes cases being recorded in country and has recommended the use of food and change in life style to manage diabetes.
He noted that the body was capable of repairing itself using fatty acids as a major component of the diet.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, Dr Kyiamah explained that, the body will help repair damaged mitochondrial matrices, by consuming only foods containing the fatty acids which the body produces naturally, mentioning fruit cider vinegar, fermented food items, organic butter, tropical saturated fats, animal fat, olive oil as well as virgin coconut oil, which has been found to be effective in managing diabetes
He said there were about four million diabetics in Ghana whilst records of the health statistics unit of the Ghana Health Service indicated that from 2005 to 2009, the annual cases of diabetes increased from about 40,000 to about 104,000.
“Diabetes according to the World Health Organisation, is said to be one of the rising killer diseases globally, claiming one life every eight seconds and a limb lost at every 30 seconds, but healthy diet habit can also be adopted to reduce the high incidence rate.”
Diabetes is caused by the failure of the “power-house” of the cell to use glucose to produce energy. The “power-house” is known as mitochondrial matrix.
People with diabetes fail to convert most of the glucose into energy. Hence, glucose builds up in the blood and passes out of the body as part of the urine.
Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations.
8 November 2015
Dr. Kaku Kyiamah, an Industrialist has expressed worry about the high rate of diabetes cases being recorded in country and has recommended the use of food and change in life style to manage diabetes.
He noted that the body was capable of repairing itself using fatty acids as a major component of the diet.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, Dr Kyiamah explained that, the body will help repair damaged mitochondrial matrices, by consuming only foods containing the fatty acids which the body produces naturally, mentioning fruit cider vinegar, fermented food items, organic butter, tropical saturated fats, animal fat, olive oil as well as virgin coconut oil, which has been found to be effective in managing diabetes
He said there were about four million diabetics in Ghana whilst records of the health statistics unit of the Ghana Health Service indicated that from 2005 to 2009, the annual cases of diabetes increased from about 40,000 to about 104,000.
“Diabetes according to the World Health Organisation, is said to be one of the rising killer diseases globally, claiming one life every eight seconds and a limb lost at every 30 seconds, but healthy diet habit can also be adopted to reduce the high incidence rate.”
Diabetes is caused by the failure of the “power-house” of the cell to use glucose to produce energy. The “power-house” is known as mitochondrial matrix.
People with diabetes fail to convert most of the glucose into energy. Hence, glucose builds up in the blood and passes out of the body as part of the urine.
Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations.