YOUR LIFESTYLE COULD BE A DEATH SENTENCE (PART 2)

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     Last time out, we started to look into the topic, “your lifestyle could be a death sentence” and we began by considering the effect that alcohol consumption can have on us, and we concluded that it was in our best interest if we abstained from alcohol because of it’s addictive potentials and susceptibility to causing numerous ailment cutting across diabetes and arthritis e.t.c.

Today we will begin by taking a look at one other substance that has also been abused by man, ground tobacco otherwise known as snuff. The rate at which ground tobacco is consumed today is believed to have reduced detrimentally especially amongst the younger generation, as cigarette smoking has become the more dominant form of tobacco use.

But again, if you look back at history, it would wow you to know that there was a point in time when the snuff industry was very fashionable, so much so that the manufacture of snuff accessories was a lucrative industry in several cultures.

    a brief history

Snuff was first observed amongst the natives of Brazil before attaining fame amongst the other part of the world.


HOW DANGEROUS IS SNUFF USE?

Those who use one box of snuff per day or more have a 70 percent higher risk

Of developing type-2 diabetes,

Which is the same risk increase seen in the past for those who smoke one packet

Of cigarette per day.

This link which we saw is important as diabetes is both a serious and common

Illness in society.

Cecilia Magnusson

(Adjunct Professor at Karolinska Institutet)


      She also went on to add that nicotine, a component of snuff is very addictive and living with an addiction often entails a poor quality of life. While on the other hand, we have also shown that snuff reduces the risk of contracting Parkinson’s disease.

      In my opinion, what’s the advantage, if at the end of it all, you end up with diabetes and an addiction which places you in a horrible state, all in the name of reducing the risk of Parkinson’s disease and not even total avoidance of it. I believe you will agree with me, that it’s not worth it, at all.

       Like I said, its consumption has reduced, but it does not mean, that there aren’t a good number of people basking in this domain, hence I will charge us all to take the responsibility of enlightening our counterpart that take pleasure in this substance, of the danger that it entails.


HOW CAN OUR LIFESTYLE BE A DEATH SENTENCE

      Beyond substance abuse and illicit unprotected sex, our carelessness in other spheres of life, or even, our ignorance on how to handle certain situations could cost us our life, maybe not suddenly but definitely.

        Truth be told, we are all going to die someday, but how and when, depends to a good extent on us and the decisions we make. Hence the need to exercise caution, besides we have a lot to live for, before the curtain is drawn.


DENOUEMENT

      What we have done today, and in the post before this, is surgeon into acquiring deeper insight on a few example of what we would regard as recreational drugs and also observe a few penalties that accompany their consumption.

        Off course, there are many lures and attraction, with death traps lying beneath. But as children of God, it is important that all we do is earmarked for the appraisal of the Most High, whether in thought, word or deed.

        In the mind of some us, we know it, when we make wrong choices related to our health and for some of us also, there are a lot of life endangering habit that we have cultivated that we are ignorant of, but nonetheless, we should take serious, matters related to our health, and also imbibe in us, the culture of having checkups, and if possible, employ the service of a family doctor, who will help us make better health choices. Furthermore also, take out time to study resources related to health, and as a way of advertisement, make sure to come back to my blog for feeds on how to make better health choices.


Reference 

1. https://ki.se/en/research/how-dangerous-is-snuff-use.

2. https://www.britannica.com/topic/snuff.

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(tobacco).


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