Obesity
Do you know that the rate of people dying worldwide, of excessive eating, is higher than the death rate of people killed by hunger because they don’t have much to eat?
Following the report filed by ‘The World Disaster Report,’ it is estimated that more than 1.5 million people worldwide are suffering from overweight problems, medically known as obesity. According to the report, Obesity is generally common in Europe, the United States of America, and the Middle East.
The report further states that even though hunger affects Asia and Africa, many people in those continents don’t die as much from hunger as those who have too much to eat.
The report defines hunger as not having enough food to eat. Around the world, it is estimated that thousands of people are facing hunger.
Many people also suffer from hunger because they have no money to buy food. The scarcity of the commodity causes inflation and increases the price of commodities.
For example, in Kenya, the price of maize has increased over the past year by 180 percent. That is a dramatic development if you know that 80% of income in the developing countries goes into only food.
“More than a third of the food produced in the world ends up not in the mouths of starving people. Half of the annual harvested grain is processed into biofuel or fodder.” The report states.
Food is delicious, but that doesn’t mean that people must eat excessively to destroy themselves. What is the significance of causing much suffering to yourself when you know that too much of everything has a negative consequence?
One could always avoid going to the gym, to waste money and time by shedding off extra pounds, when you eat the right food.
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development-IFAD said thousands of households in Ghana would benefit from projects aimed at building small-scale businesses and enhancing agricultural activity.
IFAD said in a statement that a US$31.5 million loan, under the 'Rural Enterprise Project', would provide Ghana's rural poor with quality and easily accessible services such as affordable credit and cost-effective technology to improve productivity.
The loan will finance the third phase of the project, which will focus on rural women and youth in all rural areas of Ghana. According to IFAD, "Ghana was the first country to have almost half of the proportion of people in extreme poverty.
However, despite the overall decline in the rate of poverty in the country, poverty affliction still lies in rural areas, especially in the Northern Region of Ghana.
IFAD also stated that it had invested a total of over US$677 million, since 1980, to help reduce rural poverty in Ghana, benefitting nearly 1.8 million households.
Is that what Europe and America want Africa to legalize when they are still dealing with the Aids and Ebola crisis?
In a recent interview with the BBC, British Premier David Cameron threatened to cut aid to anti-gay countries and declared that “countries receiving British aid should adhere to proper human rights.”
Can David Cameron define what it means by proper human rights? If a country doesn’t want to embrace a culture that they are familiar with or accept homosexuality on its soil, is that an abuse of human rights?
Can David Cameron accept when the Ghanaian government tells him to stop the deportation of illegal immigrants because it is an abuse of human rights?
David Cameron has forgotten that he has a big task on his shoulders to deal with the problems of alcoholism, teenage pregnancy, and crime in his country, rather than interfering in the Ghanaian government’s policy on gay issues.
His request to legitimize homosexuality in Ghana is meaningless. The Ghanaian government can take that.
The West and many advanced countries think that they can tell Africa what to do. If Cameron wants Ghana to legitimize homosexuality, he must first leave his wife and begin to enjoy the 'back' of men, then the whole of Ghana will follow him and take his advice.
Africa has suffered enough. The continent is still fighting against AIDS, malaria, and other deadly diseases; it is, therefore, clear that there is no room for homosexuality.
Ghanaian and religious leaders should fight against homosexuality in Ghana and let Cameron keep his aid. Ghanaians will not die from famine. Yesterday was slavery and Apartheid.
They are dead and gone. Today, they are enforcing homosexuality in a country that is totally foreign to such acts. Cameron should begin to respect Ghana and understand the country’s cultural values.
Above all, homosexuality has nothing to do with human rights; it is a human's choice.
