Traditional African Diet Vs Western Civilization Diet

Traditional African Diet VS Western Civilization Diet
Choosing Western civilization diet over Traditional African diet is harmful, due to the obesity and related health problems from the expansion of fast foods in African Countries. People are choosing to eat fast foods over their local African dishes, to prove their wealth. Many people are forgetting the risk of fast foods which can spiraling rates to diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, and stroke. Processed food as become an addiction for African people which had led to health risks. The impact of western diet is not good for people that are used to eating traditional African food. The biggest quality of Western diet is overconsumption of high fats. In Ghana, fast food is popular, and I …show more content…
For example, Ancient Egyptian society was one that placed importance on grains, which they used to prepare a flat loaf of bread similar to what we call pita today. (Harris, 7) More than millions of people from Africa countries preferred making food with their hands; Some of the fun facts I learned from reading this book was that people walk through the streets of the African countries with their hands full and mouths moving. These are some of the food that is eaten by the people till today date. (Aloco) Fried Plantains are famous in Ivory Coast, located in West Africa. Plantain Crisps (Ghana) are also eaten in most of the African countries. People are substituting these snacks as Chips that are eaten in the western countries. Grilled Plantains with peanuts is one of some West Africa’s street snacks make perfect vegetable side dishes for Western-style meals. This roadside favorite from Lagos, Nigeria, combining grilled plantains and salted peanuts. Yam is one of the oldest food in Africa. Yams became so important within the western section of the countries, they took on mythical parts. Festivities mark their planting and harvesting in countries like Ghana and Nigeria even today. In the medieval empire of Mali, people consumed in great quantities by beer and palm wine drinkers, as it reputed to help ease the pains of the morning after the night before. (“The African Cookbook”) Moreover, in the western …show more content…
As for beverages, palm wine or beer is popular in most of the west African countries. all thought, people grow coffee crops in most of the west African countries, locals often drinks coffee or tea in early morning. During the day, most of them go into a small bar that serve beer and soft drinks which music or television are played to entertain them.
My Interviewer mentions that some African cuisines are mostly traditional. Nevertheless, as in other parts of Africa, Cameroon cuisines presents a variety of dishes. The essential ingredients are plantains and cassava. That is usually made from fare served with grilled meat and sauces. She said that even though, even though a lot of foods has been westernized or Americanize the traditional behind still the same. Most of the foods are stay cook. She also said that people are substituting rice with cauliflower and reducing the number of calories in the food, but the traditional recipe and the taste is still the same. For example, people are substituting rice with cauliflower and reducing the number of calories in the food, but the main thing is that we still follow the traditional recipe and the taste is still the same. Due to many influences African foods and their cooking process have been westernized but the tradition behind the food stays the