Before you go to bed tonight, I want to ponder on these. I have always known my mother as a health freak.Chinny have you taken tumeric today,how do you feel now?And sometimes I would even lie and sometimes I will drink the tumeric with a frown on my face. I have tried to know how she became so health conscious.I have come to know that taking care of your health is the ultimate. I mean with our local herbs. Let's draw our minds back to the pre colonial Nigeria,Nigerians have been living with treasures right below their feet.It took outsider to come into our land and discover it and took large quantity away. Then when we came back to our senses,we started fighting each other for the remaining. Just the other day,we heard more than 100 people where burnt when they went to steal fuel from a broken pipe (their own resources). Have you ever heard that any of those outsiders got burnt when they were stealing our resources?I guess not.So why do we keep chasing shadows and leaving the reality? Well that was a long time ago. Let's focus on the present now. We heard that our great grandfathers and grandfathers lived longer than we do now. Everyday,we pray for long life,but do we really want long life with the way we live? Didn't the bible say faith without work is dead? The way we eat junk foods and mostly processed foods,do we really want to live long?The producers of processed foods cause the problem,then their medical counterparts produce the solution.Is that what we really want with our body? Sometimes,the producers of processed food cause problems that their medical counterparts cannot give the solution,and then what happens? Death.That is one life wasted.There are some sicknesses only old people suffer due to their old age but now young people suffer from these sicknesses like its a normal thing.My mum will be like"Chinny, drink plenty of water so that tomorrow you will not be complaining of kidney stones or kidney failure,Chinny eat this, eat that.But I eat want I feel like eating.These processed foods have gone through a lot of processes and have lost a lot of nutrients needed by the body.Watch what you eat. I am not saying that eat processed food is bad but eating it all the time is dangerous. What happened to our herbs and vegetables?Do you know they do a lot for us?Do we even patronize people who sell these herbs and vegetables?These vegetables go a long way for us.Watch people who eat them often and see how they enjoy good health. Let us value what we have now so that we don't regret it later. Eat more herbs,fruits and vegetables today.Mind what goes through your mouth.They say"health is wealth",only when you are healthy that you can go about your business. Take care of your health. #the life of a lazy writer.