National health emergency: Why careless food choices are killing Nigerians
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By Chioma Obinna
Across markets in Nigeria, shoppers’ decisions are made in seconds. A mother reaching for a packet of noodles, a bottle of cooking oil, and a loaf of bread, does not check the sodium levels, trans fats or sugar content.
Like most shoppers, she never picked these products for nutritional value, but for price and familiarity.
Yet health experts warn that these small, routine choices repeated millions of times across Nigeria are accumulating into a national health eme
Across markets in Nigeria, shoppers’ decisions are made in seconds. A mother reaching for a packet of noodles, a bottle of cooking oil, and a loaf of bread, does not check the sodium levels, trans fats or sugar content.
Like most shoppers, she never picked these products for nutritional value, but for price and familiarity.
Yet health experts warn that these small, routine choices repeated millions of times across Nigeria are accumulating into a national health eme
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