THE SECRET OF LONGEVITY FR MBAKA GIVES ADORERS SIMPLE LIFE-PROLONGING EATING HABITS AND HEALTH HYGIENE AS FOOD FOR THOUGHT

At the wake of his ministration on Sunday last week, the 5th day of October 2014, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka gave adorers a health lecture that lasted for hours as prelude to his Sermon titled “Think of this” which he espoused from the Word of God in Philippians 4:8. This uncommon health lecture from the pulpit is apposite in balancing one’s spirituality and health. In his exclusive moment with Amen Super News after the message, he unleashed a litany of observances and tips that can prolong one’s life. Excerpts:

BACKGROUND

“We shall quote chapters and verses today but some of the things we shall touch now are very important because it is part of the second reading today in Philippians 4:8, where the Bible says “… whatever is true think of it, whatever is worthy think of it, whatever is reverence think of it, whatever is honourable think of it, whatever is seemingly think of it, whatever is just think of it, whatever is pure think of it, whatever is loyal think of it, whatever is loveable think of it, whatever is kind think of it, whatever is gracious think of it, if there is any virtue think of it, anything of excellence think of it” (Amplified Version )

Health is good so let us talk about it.

AVOID OVER CARBOHYDRATES

There are certain classes of food which have to be regulated in our body. Carbohydrate is one of them. Most common food we take today such as breads, noodles, starchy foods like cassava, gari, rice are sources of carbohydrates. They are often referred to as heavy food because the digestion of such food usually over labours the digestive system and weakens the body cells.

EFFECT OF TOO MUCH NOODLES ON A CHILD.

You don’t have to fill your store with such noodles like indomie for your child to be eating. Buy your Children small Bible, the ones that usually have pictures for your Children to be reading. Timothy started to know the Bible at his child hood. Too much intake of indomie will make your child a dullard. We have done some study about the nutritional value of all these type of junks, they do not have fiber and people are eating it. Even young ladies are among those eating this type of food. The effect of these junks is that they produce unnecessary fats.

In our research to know why breast cancer is rampart these days, some of the causes were traced to non fibrous diets. The students in school will be soaking milk and drinking and their parents will support them by saying that they wouldn’t allow their wards to go to where they will not be allowed to take provisions. Once a girl child is above eleven years old and you continue to allow her to take too much milk, you are endangering her health because there is something ‘in a woman’s body that generates milk. So when a girl child starts early to have much accumulation of milk in her body, it will go to her breast because that is where the milk-producing gland is. If care is not taken, the child will have unhealthy early puberty. And when it gets to that level, before you know it, because she has never given birth to make way for the breast milk to go out, the milk will be stockpiled in the breast and will begin to form unnecessary lumps. Most of the lumps are benign if you are lucky, but if you are not lucky, the benign ones become malignant and that is the cancer we talk about, so reduce what you eat.

As a young woman, some men would take you to some of these joints where they are selling some of this nonsense and buy rice for you. What is the content of that rice? What is the quantity of vegetable in it? They would fill it with sweetened nonsense that you do not know and put a little piece of meat in it. After eating this, you would boast to your friends, “he took me out, it is now I got a friend that takes me out”. He is really taking you out of life. He is taking you out and very soon you will die. That is ‘taking out’ for you. Instead of you to go to your parents’ house and cook a good food and add some nourishment in it and eat for the good of your health, you would go and eat junks and wash it down with malt, saying “this one is low sugar”. Who told you?

ADULT EATING NOODLES AND EGGS , RED MEAT AND OTHER EATING HABITS

Most of the time before we do ministration, we need to talk about some health tips. Stop giving your child too much indomie. And you parents, you have passed the stage of eating that type of food. If you continue to eat it, what it would do is to form instant fat and when it has no means of going out, it will begin to swell on your belly. That is fibroid for you. All these common sickness are fats that are looking for where they will develop. We have fatuous glands, if it doesn’t develop in the belly, it may develop at your buttocks. And that is when you would see somebody getting fatter and fatter and she would be saying “I don’t eat much food; it is only common Shawama that I eat”. Is this what you call common? After eating this, you would bring one egg, break it and eat it up at a stretch. Do you know that egg yokes taken by an adult cause a great danger to the adult’s heart? So if you must eat egg as an adult, remove the yoke, that yellow part. It is that sweet part that kills.

I am trying to be a health expert and the doctors here know that all I am saying is true. Like I said earlier, after a young woman had finished eating this, she would be polluting the air with her flatulence. When a suitor comes near her before he says anything she has released some gas and he would ask her to give him her number that he would call her later. Red meat is not totally bad but a minimal quantity of is needed by the body. Too much red meat weakens the liver and over labours it. Eat white meat but remove their fats thoroughly. Stop eating late. Food taken late at nights hardly digest well. Hurried irregular meal should also be avoided as they can lead to constipation.

WHY THE VILLAGERS LIVE LONG

Eat good food. When you go to the village, you will see that they live long, this is because while cooking there, they will put things like uzuza, okazi, okpeye, etc all these things are anti- cacinegenous. They produce the health antioxidants that fight and destroy free radicals. They kill these things that cause cancer in the body, because man and his nature is a cancerous zone. Some men do have breast cancer, because men have breasts too. It is not only women that do have it. I am giving you heath information. So if you are not fortunate it will develop, but male breast cancers are usually minimal.

CIGARETTE SMOKING AND INDIAN HEMP AND OTHER HARD NARCOTICS.

What else can we say on this point more than the warnings that usually follow every tobacco adverts “the Federal Ministry of Health warns that tobacco smoking is dangerous to health.” This is not my words but that of the same medium that advertises cigarette and tobacco.

It is unfortunate that those who indulge in this act have taken these warnings as rhetoric yet in those words lie the immanent dangers of smoking.

Instead of continuing to eat at the restaurant and inhaling the cigarette smoke there, go home, cook good food and eat. While you are there at the restaurants, the people who are smoking will be smoking and you would say that you don’t smoke, but you don’t know that the effect of the smoke being exhaled by smokers while smoking is more cancerous prone than the one inhaled by the smokers themselves. So you that are inhaling the smoke exhaled by a smoker otherwise called a passive smoker, develops tendency for having cancer caused by cigarette more than the active smoker. So a smoker is not free and you that are there where cigarette is being smoked are not free either. Even that person that brings the match for lightening the cigarette is not free because, that first smoke that is emitted immediately a cigarette is lighted is so dangerous that once you inhale it, it is a matter of time and age will begin to bring out the effect.

IN TAKE OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES CAN PREVENT PROSTRATE CANCER IN MEN.

Some of us here do not have the chance to take fruits. In the case of males, every male that is alive has prostrate in his organ. It is a natural gift. It is healthy and part of the man. But when you begin to grow out of age, the prostrate can become cancerous and there are simple fruits you can be taking like tomatoes, carrots etc and it will help you out of the situation. Once you are above 30 years old, every male should take at least one ball of tomatoes every day.

Hosea 4: 6 says “My people Perish because they lack knowledge.” If you find it difficult to eat carrot, you can be grinding it. Grind it with tomatoes; add orange to it, if it is possible for you add the seed of some of these English grape, the type they sell at Shoprite. Some of you that do eat the grape used to throw away the seed after leaking the grape. It is the seed that is anti-cacinagenous. It is that seed that is an antioxidant, so you are supposed to eat the seed and even throw away that sweet part. If it will be possible for you, take pawpaw seed everyday even if it means one seed. If you can’t eat it raw, you can grind it. How much does a grinder cost? By the time you go to hospital and they will diagnose you with cancer, it will be terrible for you. It is better to be prevented than to be cured. So ensure that you take vegetables and fruits and foods rich in fibre. They will help protect your body tissues and make them strong and resistant to common ailments.

Ensure that the fruits you take must be fresh and well washed and uninfected. Such diets like Garlic, Onions, grape seed are good for your health.

REGULAR WATER INTAKE

So instead of boasting at the beer palour that you took one bottle of O’ Papa Hero brand and made it up to two, do these simple things that will prolong your life. Beer intake kills your kidney and liver. There is an age you will reach and you reduce your intake of anything alcohol. Even if you should take, it should be minimal. But if you can avoid it, healthier for you. Drink water instead. Drink clean water even at midnights, Water is health, you can never have overdose of water. Remember the emphasis here is on drinking clean water eg, Aqua Rapha because sometime you can contaminate some sickness through bad water. Avoid drinking pipe running water because the pipe could rust and be infected. Drink good water with P.H that is not lower than 5%.

When you wake up, take at least three cups of clean water, practice it until you get used to it, we call it water therapy. After a while take some, when you are pressed go and urinate it out. As a man when you are pressed, don’t hold back urine in your bladder, find the nearest available convenience and urinate. As you hold back urine in your bladder, you are endangering even the prostate glands.

INTAKE OF DRUGS LIKE ANTI-BIOTIC / SELF MEDICATION

It touches me that the Doctors who read this well do not know how to teach people about it. They are the ones that are supposed to be teaching us for us to learn from them. All they know very well is how to prescribe drugs in the hospital, and there is an extent you will consume drugs and it will cause you cancer. This is common especially with people that take antibiotics. Antibiotics are not healthy for the body but we cannot do without it. Because it destroys before it heals. And if you do not eat good food well, it will be a problem for you.

In the same vein, there are people who endanger their lives with self medication. They recommend drugs for themselves and hardly visit health experts. They take Panadol for all sicknesses, head ache, stomach ache, cough, etc. Self medication is dangerous; it is the mother of drug abuse which is the use of medication outside a doctor’s prescription. So be careful because most often when your health conditions get complicated as a result of yourself medication you will spend more than that money you are saving in treating yourself. So if you want to live long, stop self medication, visiting quack doctors and “chemists”, stop drinking cheap drugs, they are threats to your life.

O+ BLOOD GROUP SHOULD AVOID SEMOVITA.

It is one thing to eat well and another to eat good food well. Like most of us now in the townships that do eat Semovita and so on, those in the village that eat cassava are better than us. Cassava is healthier than all these preserved foods we do eat here. Because cassava has fibre. Those whose blood group is O+ are not supposed to be eating Semovita, they are supposed to be eating cassava instead, if you want to live long. This is not a matter of “this food is for the Villagers.”

INTAKE OF DECAFFEINATED COFFEE

Early in the morning, you would finish one loaf of bread, some big men would tell you it is coffee they are drinking. Reduce the intake of all these things. Male and Females reduce the intake of coffee. Avoid it even. If you must take coffee, take a decaffeinated coffee. Intakes of decaffeinated coffee can by 40% reduce the tendency of brain cancer and reduce the possibility of early senility. If I had time, I would be taking all these, but I do not have the chance. That is my problem. I know about them but I have no chance for them.

If we have an upstairs here I will demonstrate this for you. I will tell everyone of you here to run up the staircase, some of you will start to pant after climbing the first staircase. That is a sign that such person is almost dying. That is the sign that fat has blocked the heart. Many veins that pump blood to the cardio vascular organs are blocked up. But because the cells are in millions, we would not immediately notice the blocked ones so long as others are working. But you wouldn’t notice that your life is being shot down gradually. An analogy of this is like this; in church where we have several light bulbs, when one bulb stops working, we hardly notice because other ones are shining in its place. A time will come when the bulbs will die gradually until you will hardly notice there is light here and when it remains about two bulbs, everywhere will begin to be dark. It is that point that we normally go to hospital.

I took someone to India for a kidney transplant after he had passed through dialysis at Annunciation Hospital. We send him to India later, after I had paid for the person that will donate the kidney and deposited money in the hospital for the transplantation. They decided to have integral diagnosis in India and in the process it was noticed that why the dialysis here doesn’t function well is because some of the veins that pump blood to the heart are blocked and if the transplant is done, he will not be able to carry it. The new kidney will fail and he will die, so they started to open up the vessels that send blood into the heart first. That was the first surgery that they had to do with the money we sent. They now put the man in diet, not drugs.

ALCOHOL INTAKE- DRINKING OF BOTTLE BEER AND PALM WINE

It’s usual for you to boast that you ate two plates of food and washed it down with bottles of Heineken or O Papa. It is one thing to eat two plates of food and another to eat quality food. It is better for you to go to the village and get fresh palm wine. This is simple knowledge that can save complex life. You may be thinking that palm wine is for the villager but you don’t know that it is far better than the beer you are consuming because the beer has passed through refineries and chemicals. I am not talking about palm wine mixed with Saccharine; I am talking of fresh palm wine. When you take it to a level it will not intoxicate you, it is far better than beers. How I wish my body permits me to be taking this kind of thing, but I cannot because once a drop of it touches my mouth, it will cause me some illness. So I cannot drink it but for those who want to drink, go for such. God blessed our land and gave us the one that is in our homes- Palm wine. What we have in White Man’s land is Grape vine. And when you take that grape vine that is non alcoholic, it reduces the tendency for cancer. So if you must drink, drink a good one. It is not after this message you will go and get fermented palm wine, left over after funeral, and begin to drink it. Avoid whatever will work against your kidney and liver. There is yeast in that fresh white palm wine and it helps the human sight. When a nursing mother takes that fresh one in moderate quantity, it helps her in the quality of the breast milk.

For all those who devour bottles of beers by tearing off the cork with their teeth, finishing them in a gulp and hiding them under their tables, it is not good for the health of your teeth and dental system. Don’t open anything metallic with your teeth. Some of these bottle covers have stains and rust particles and when you use your teeth to have contact with the rust, it can cause infection. Some of these infections come through viruses that are microscopic. The bio chemists should join me in what I am saying because you may have passed through school without the school passing through you.

CARE FOR YOUR BODY AND PERSONAL HYGIENE

Apart from what we eat, what about those that do not wash their bodies well? Do you know that if we tell everybody here to raise their armpit, you will see that some armpits are like fire smokes. Maybe one day we may ask everyone in the church to wear short sleeved clothes. You will see that some people’s armpits are like an evil forest- Iyagboku shrine. This causes what is called ecological pollution. Some of you after defecating will not clean your anus well. Health hygiene is the secret of Longevity

In 3rd John 2 the Bible says you shall be of good health and you shall prosper even as your soul prospers. Some of you here no longer brush your teeth. Some don’t know where toothpastes are being sold and when they open their mouth, odours will be oozing out. If you emit this type of body odours while alive, I wonder what your corpse will emit at your death. The Morticians will charge double for your embalmment.

The recommendation is that you should wash your teeth and tongue after every meal. You have no right to transfer and generate bad odour.

Some people fail interview because when they are being interviewed by the Manager and he or she opens his or her mouth to talk, the manager will stand up and go and spread perfume around and come back to dismiss them. Such persons will come out of the interview to say that they were not even asked many questions. You don’t know you have failed yourself because of bad odour.

Some of you here will return from the day’s business and stuck the wet stockings you have worn for days inside your shoes or canvass. The next day you will wear them again. Do you know that bad odour can cause infection? When you enter some people’s room, you can’t breathe. I went somewhere the other day and some people said I should come and bless their house, when I entered the house, there were odours everywhere. I told them I will stand at a distance and will be sending the blessings to the house.

If it is possible, you are supposed to wash your body each time after visiting the toilet. The cleaning you do with toilet tissue is not enough. You have to be neat always especially the young women here. How much does a razor blade cost that you can’t buy it to weed that your evil forests? If you can’t afford a razor, come and queue in line so we will give you the money. You are being wicked to your body which God created in His likeness for you to take care of. How much does a good soap cost that you can’t afford? Get some cotton bud and clean your ears with it once in a while.

WHAT TYPE OF SOAP AND CREAM DO YOU USE?

Use good soap and wash your body from head to toe, there is no part of human body that soap is prohibited from touching. After you are dressed for church and you go to toilet, go back to the bathroom and have another bathe, because that little feaces in your anus when you gas on top of it, your guess is as good as mine. When you bath, clean the gaps in-between your toes and fingers, there are odours there. Human beings naturally have odour and when you stop cleaning your body the odour will start coming out. What I am preaching to you here is a practical sermon.

While making your choice of soap and body creams beware of skin cancer causing species. Beware of bleaching soaps and creams; they do more harm than good to the skin.

REGULAR EXERCISE

Exercise is good for the body, it make the body to be fit and strong. During exercises, the increased body metabolism helps to burn the excess fats in the body and this is discharged inform of sweats. So such exercises like running, walking, press up , riding etc are good for the body and enhance longevity .One major reason why in the olden days, people live long is because they exercise their bodies unknowingly through most of the activities they undertook such as walking to the market, farming, etc.

AVOID CONSTANT USE OF AIR CONDITION

Nowadays, you can see some people living in township, after overfeeding themselves with junks, they would sleep under an air conditioned room, move about their days activities in air-conditioned cars and work in air conditioned offices and return to the same room. They think that are living big by such life style. There is no physical activities they undertake to ease off the fats and other body waste through sweat. Their body cells suffer the effect of all these accumulated substances and what is the result? Short-lived life, and obesity and so on, and so on. So you should make sure that you sweat healthy, such sweatiness that leads to sweetness.

INHALE QUALITY AIR OXYGEN

The air we breathe in is called oxygen. It goes to the body cells for body metabolism and thus the quality of the air is very important. Contaminated oxygen can be disastrous to your body. Examples of contaminated oxygen are polluted oxygen, avoid inhaling them .That was why we talked about you making sure that your environment is clean.

The major source of the oxygen we take is the plants. Plants produce this oxygen after photosynthesis. That is why it is advisable sometime to say stay and relax under the plants than under an air-conditioned room. So Avoid constant use of air condition, , natural oxygen is the best alternative

GOOD REST

It is said “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy”. You must create time to take good rest after you have worked. Now see what the Bible says on this point:

Relaxation, In Isaiah 40:28-31 “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint” ”

Zero Anxiety: Phil 4: 6 Be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known to God.

Zero worries: Matt 6:33 “Seek you first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”

Zero fear -Heb 13:5b “He himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake you nor let you. Assuredly I will not” See also Ex 14:13-14 Josh 1:5-8

READ GOOD BOOKS

Reading is an exercise to the brain; remember our earlier discussion that exercise is good for the body. Reading good books such as the Bible and inspirational books helps you to equip yourself with knowledge and knowledge they say is power. Hosea 4; 6 says “My people perish because they lack knowledge” the power of knowledge you acquire can help save your life. Similar to reading is hearing good news. Good news comes with happiness and joy that prolongs human life so listen to them. The word of God in the Bible is one such good news we are talking of, so listen to them.

MUSIC THERAPY & DANCE THERAPY

A good and melodious music with harmonious instrumentation is a metaphysical diet for the integral personality. Listen to such music severally, sing such music. Music they say is the food of the soul; it places one at super realm of the invisible world of possibilities. It is good for emotional balancing and enhances ones integral wellness this goes DANCE THERAPY

Don’t say that you don’t know how to dance, Dance it anyhow.

AVOID HIGH CHOLESTEROL OIL.

If you must use oil reduce the quantity. Use oil like, Olive Oil, Soybean, Groundnut oil- These species of oil has anti cancer antioxidants. Olive Oil has an intrinsic oceakantal that could enhance good health and fight free radicals.

MEDITATION, CONTEMPLATION AND WAITING ON THE LORD

These enhance physiopsychotherapeutic harmonization of the entire human personality

BEWARE OF ANGER

An anger man/woman is a mad man/woman. Each time you are angry, you reduce your life span. Anger is poisonous and a silent killer.

LAUGHING THERAPY

This is the antidote to anger. Enjoy good jokes, Laugh as much as you can. You can form a laughing group. Come together and begin to laugh and laugh and laugh.

BEWARE OF ENVY

– Learn to see good in others and praise God.

AVOID STRESS:

Stress is a silent killer, avoid. Learn the stress management techniques, the music therapy, Dance therapy and laughing therapy discussed above can be of help to you.

FEAR OF GOD AND KEEPING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS.

This is a secret that has to be observed by you, if you want to live long. The Bible say in. Ex 23:22 “But if thou shall indeed obey his voice, and do all what I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries”. In Psalm 128:6, the Bible says “You shall see your Children’s children and peace upon Israel”

Holiness is a secret of longevity. Purify your life and be sanctified and enjoy longevity in Christ. John 14:19 the Bibles says “because I live, you shall also live” In Jn 10:10 Jesus says “the thief Comes not, but to steal, and to kill and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” and finally Ps 91:16 says “I will satisfy you with long life and show you my salvation”

LOVETHERAPY. Go ahead and love God and your neighbor. Love even your enemies Mtt 5:44 says “ But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Show your enemies love and leave God to fight for you do good to people. Be non discriminatory. Avoid racism, love beyond boundary, Heb 13:2 says “ Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares”. You could welcome angels without knowing by welcoming strangers. Lk 6:38; Give, it will be given to you. Prov 19:17, when you give to the poor, you lend to God.

PRIESTLY BLESSINGS

How often is your priest blessing or cursing you? The job and essential mission of the Priest is to bless like Jesus in Luke 4:18-19 where Jesus says “the Spirit of Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those them that are bruised. To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

Every Priest and parent is called for the sake of longevity to bless his family always like Aaron in Numbers 6:22-27 where God commanded Aaron to pronounce these words of blessings unto his children: “The Lord blesses you and keeps you. The Lord make his faces shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel and I will bless them”.

Avoid curses, bless. Remark that in Neh 13:2, Zech8:13 and Zech 14:11, God has turned our curses into blessings.

ANOINTING POWER: Speaking on anointing the Bible says in Ps 23:5 that God anointed my head with oil. In Ps 92:10 the Bibles says “But my horn shall thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil”. Is 10:27, it is written that the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing, Ps 105:15 “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm” Ask your priest to anoint severally. I don’t mean the consecrated oil of Chrism for the Sacrament of Orders. Blessed oil of anointing could be anointing for longevity. Anoint your children, wife, husband and parents etc.

The Blood therapy

Always cover yourself with the Blood of Jesus Christ, for protection, healing, health and longevity.

Recite and invoke the Blood of Jesus Christ with faith upon your household, your business, destiny, vocations, friends etc.

Go through these scriptural power verses and recite the Blood therapy after each verse:

Ex.12:7 – They shall take of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel [above the door space] of the houses in which they shall eat [the Passover lamb].

SAY: “The Blood of Jesus Christ Please cover me for longevity”

Ex.12:13 – The Blood shall be for a token or sign to you upon [the door-posts of] the houses where you are, [that] when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall be upon you to destroy you when I smite the land of Egypt.