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- Pix(above): Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, DG, NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alarmed on the negative implication of excessive fasting, especially on religious grounds, stressing it has the capability of destroying one’s kidney(s).
Issuing this warning in Abuja, during a press briefing, yesterday, the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, rather, urged Nigerians to fast with common sense or pay with their kidneys.
Adeyeye who also warned Nigerians to be conscious of hawkers and street-corner sellers of medicines, also alarmed: “I don’t know how many may have died in Nigeria due to substandard medicines and unwholesome foods resulting from kidney failure, liver damage, and such other internal vital organ ailments.”
Speaking further on excessive fasting, she said: “No doubt, we are a very religious country, as Muslims and Christians fast a lot, and it is part of the damning kidney problem. Because your body has to have homeostasis balance, meaning the water level in your body must be enough to make your organs to function effectively. Some people will fast for 10, 20 days, without drinking a required quantity of water, and the kidney is being punished.
“Now, if you put chemicals in it, it triples in an exponential manner, with damage to the kidneys. This is because the kidney does not have enough water to dilute and filter.
“I myself, fast but I fast with common sense. We have to fast with common sense, otherwise, we will pay it with our kidneys,” she advised.
“For effective kidney condition also, do not buy medicines from hawkers and corner stores, but always patronize pharmacies, with proven and clinically tested good medicines, and you will go a long way helping in ensuring your kidneys’ healthy condition for everlasting good health.”/SHARETHIS
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