How Nigerian Native Foods Are Making You Fat

When you name foods that make you fat quickly, what comes to the mind is Junk foods like your pizza pie, hamburger, meals from fast food joints. Our native dishes can not be place within the same class with junk foods, however yes they do make you fatten quickly. 

Why? 

Simple, most if not all of Nigeria's native meals contains a high range of calories owing to the high saccharide content. 

A calorie is that the quantity of energy in food or drinks. once you eat a definite meal your body makes uses of the calories within the meal for energy and other activities whereas the surplus calories are stored away as glycogen or fat to use at a later time. therefore if you consume foods with a high range of calories and you do not make use of these calories, the surplus are stored which can cause you to fatten out. 

So everything boils right down to the calories and the way you make use of them.

In a meal like Starch & Oil Soup, you've got about 1,950 calories approx (although this may rely upon what proportion of it you eat). If you eat this meal three times every day might|you'll|you may} be going for around 5850 calories (values could differ), that's you're eating over a pound of weight daily, (although you get to burn some or most of those calories reckoning on your level of activity).

An average man would need about 2500 kcal to take care of a healthy weight, whereas a median lady would need about 2,000 kcal. bear in mind these figures rely upon how active you're, your age, present weight etc.

If you're not a really active fellow, the surplus 2350 calories (from the 5850 calories) can get stored as fat which is how you gain weight. 

Worse still, if you opt to eat eba or pounded yam in the evenings and retire to sleep 2 hours later, you may put on weight. as a result of the calories you gain from eating that meal are stored in your body as fat rather than getting used once you go to sleep (because you're not performing any physical activity at night), so that is why i like to recommend taking something light-weight before bed and avoid eating late in the dead of night.

To clear the air.

Nigerian native foods will solely make you fat reckoning on how you burn the calories you consume. bear in mind I said if you don't exercise or engage in much physical activity, you may gain weight (fat). So, you can consume Nigerian food and still stay fit and healthy if you make use of the calories you consume. I myself still consume our native meals up till these days.

I Remain You No1 Food Adviser.