While growing up, sugar wasn't that much of a thing in my house. It wasn't banned, but let me say it was controlled, you don't just get to have access to it anyhow. If my mum makes pap or tea, there are times she wouldn't add sugar and sometimes she does, even though she's not so educated she knows what they call balance. She knows the effects of too much of things. And even till today, I can easily take garri, pap, custard or tea without adding sugar. And it makes me surprise at how sugar has become something we now abuse.
Some just feel the food is incomplete without adding sugar, you see people boil yam and add sugar, you see them cook beans and add sugar, I won't lie, I have been a victim of that too, there are times I do it, but it's very very rare. People drink garri, custard, pap, cornflakes, and all with sugar, they've forgotten that these things as well have a certain level of sugar content on their own.
So, we all have seen it as a normal thing, everything we eat must be sweet, and until we feel that sweetness so much in our mouth, we don't accept that whatever we are eating is sweet yet. Nobody asks or check their sugar level, we just keep eating it each and everyday and live life the way we want. Sometimes last week, I was at work and was just passing by one of my students classes when my eyes caught something, this girl was literally pouring sugar inside the beans she wanted to eat, she wasn't measuring it, she was pouring it from the nylon. It was when I entered to meet her that I got shocked the most, she had on her table a loaf of bread and a bottle of coke. Just Imagine, everything she wants to eat was screaming Sugar.
I sat down in front of her and began to tell her things and could you believe this girl tasted the beans and still said the sugar was not enough yet, I laughed, shook my head, and said, "this girl, you're playing with your health." Then I explained things to her, adding sugar in your beans is not advisable, and now you even have everything you want to eat consisting of sugar. I told her the adverse effects of sugar especially to her as a female, the cramps, discomfort during her cycle and various things. And I'm glad she listened, it was then she told me she was never cautioned and that she didn't know, coupled with the fact that her mum runs a chemist shop, and an she never warned or told her.
I told her to tell her mum she wants to check her sugar level she gets home, and that's the thing about most of us, we don't ask questions or do checkups on ourselves, we just wake up each and everyday, eat anything we find ourselves hands in and move on, and when something goes wrong or we feel discomfort, we begin to think it's stress, work, our cycle, and the likes while forgetting something that we've abused in our daily meal.
I won't say sugar should be banned though, I just believe that more awareness is needed. That's the most important, let people know, let them be informed/oriented/educated. They should know what the gains and risks are, they should be taught that sweet things can be harmful and that not everything bitter is harmful.
You will permit me to use a Bible verse that says, "my people perish for lack of understanding." Most of this things is due to the fact that we are ignorant, assuming we are not, and are more informed we will make good and better choices.
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