A Consultant Neurological surgeon at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Dr. Abdul-Haadi Thiamy, has cautioned aged people to refrain from eating meals which are not healthy for their bodies.
Thiamy said the aged do not need to eat three meals per day, noting that what is needed is for them to take a lot of water, fruits and vegetables to preserve their body system.
The neurologist who spoke in Iwo as the guest lecturer at the 28th Anniversary Ramadan lecture in honour of late Sheik Adatulahh Alaye, said unlike before, junk foods as taken over the intake of vegetables and fruits.
The Islamic scholar while delivering the lecture titled “Aging and the Care of the Elderly: Prophetic Traditions and Orthodox Science”, noted that elderly people should be kept in the midst of people who are mentally and socially attached to them.
He said, “So, they need to be concerned about their health, go for regular medical check-ups, drink a lot of water and eat more fruits and vegetables. What fruits and vegetables do is to keep preserving the system and mopping up all the disease-causing and cancer-causing agents that are being produce in their body before they can establish those disease conditions.
“Islam places the elderly at a very high pedestrian. Almighty Allah wants us to take care of our elders very well. The best care we can give to the elderly is to keep them in the midst of people who are mentally and socially attached to them.
“The part of their body is aged and the implication of that is that the processes that are running their system are getting tired and they are now working at sub ultima capacity where they have poor memory.
“Also, their heart is working at lower capacity and they develop either high blood pressure in an attempt of the heart to keep up with the body and the kidney start malfunctioning and the other parts of the body.”
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