![]() SSBs are found in energy drinks, sports drinks, flavoured waters, soda, sweetened tea/ coffee and fruit-flavoured drinks even as they have no nutritional benefits and are neither an essential nor desirable part of peoples’ diet. cola), juices (even 100 percent juices), nectars, sweetened coffee, sugarcane juice, sweetened tea, energy drinks and flavoured diary. The forum brought together representatives from the ministries of Health and Environment from the five southeast states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo as well as health experts, civil society organisations and the media.ĬAPPA executive director, Akinbode Oluwafemi disclosed that the forum was the fourth in the series, as similar meetings had been held in Lagos for the southwest, Bayelsa for the south-south region, and Kaduna for the northwest zone where CAPPA brought together stakeholders to discuss SSB tax.Ī health professional, Dr Francis Fagbule in his paper on the burden of SSB consumption on public health in Nigeria disclosed that most people had developed type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases, non-alcoholic liver diseases, tooth decay and cavities just by consumption of soft drinks.Īccording to him, SSBs refer to liquids, powders or other concentrated forms that contain natural or added sweeteners, including various forms of sugar like brown sugar, corn sweeteners, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar and sucrose. Recently, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and the National Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSB) Tax Coalition with support from the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) held a one-day regional stakeholders’ forum on SSB tax in Enugu State. To some, it is a sign of affluence, especially for parents of young nursery and primary school children because water appears too cheap. He had begun a campaign of more consumption of water.įor several Nigerians, irrespective of cultural, religious, ethnic or age differences, consumption of soft drinks is almost a daily affair. ![]() ![]() Social media trendy medical doctor, Chinonso Egemba had recently said a bottle of SSB contained a minimum of 16 cubes of sugar which caused grievous diseases. Her distraught husband has not stopped telling sympathisers that his wife died as a result of an attack and negligence by medical doctors because he believed that it was impossible for someone to die from toothache he failed to understand that there were underlying illnesses. The doctors and nurses tried their best to keep her alive but 48 hours later, she gave up the ghost. She had argued that her religious belief forbade her from alcohol consumption, hence her resort to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), which unknown to her was a silent killer. The 52-year-old Anjorin had always had lunch at her office canteen with a bottle of soft drink, at least four days in a week. ![]() Unknown to her, her daily consumption of a brand of soft drink had spiked her sugar level and had developed into type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. Upon examination by a medical doctor, she was admitted immediately because she was inches away from a cardiac arrest! Mrs Nike Anjorin recently developed an excruciating toothache and decided to visit the health centre to seek help.
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