Characterization of forest west African diet type and management of related modern diseases
| dc.contributor.author | Osuagwu, Chidi G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-05-10T16:05:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-05-10T16:05:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-07-17 | |
| dc.description | This 34th Public Lecture Series of the FUTO contains Figures and tables | |
| dc.description.abstract | The nutritional essence of a people's diet can be summarized in terms of their food inherent bioactive chemical functions , two crops define the food culture of forest west Africa: yam (Dioscorea spp) and the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis). These two crops define the era; agricultural as yam or palm belt and the diet as the cuisine is capsarcin -rich wood-ash, folic acid- rich wood-ash, folic acid-rich green leafy- vegetables is also basic to the diet . These bioactive chemical fuctions in these food characterize the diet. They are adapted to the acidic, equational body of the people. Apart from the basic supplies of energy and body building structural elements, characteristic forest west African foods physiological functions are: Alkalization, ketogenenesis and Bioelectrical modulation, to obvate bio redox stresses. failure of adopted modernization diet( mainly wheat , milk and meat) to fulfill these functions makes the people more susceptible to modern metabolic syndromes. The structure and known metabolic activities of isolated chemical functional essences , such as dioscorin in yam and locotrienols in palm oil suggest they are their dietary abandonment .The yam palm Diet of forest west Africa contains the functional essence of antimetabolic syndrome.Elimination of gluten and lactoso and other metabolic syndrome - promoting assenses of wheat and milk , would be healthful to forest west Africans . A return to indigenous food consuption for healthful life is advised by the facts. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Federal University of Technology, Owerri | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Osuagwu, C. G. (2019). Characterization of forest west African diet type and management of related modern diseases. 34th Public Lecture Series of the Fedeal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.futo.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14562/2737 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Federal University of Technology, Owerri | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Yampalm diet | |
| dc.subject | homeokinesis | |
| dc.subject | functional food | |
| dc.subject | dioredox | |
| dc.subject | dioscorin | |
| dc.subject | tocontnenol | |
| dc.subject | alien food | |
| dc.subject | lantose intolerance | |
| dc.subject | microbiome remediation | |
| dc.subject | metabolic syndrome | |
| dc.subject | Department of Biomedical Technology | |
| dc.title | Characterization of forest west African diet type and management of related modern diseases | |
| dc.type | Public Lecture |