Health and the Oyibo syndrome

The rave of fitness and healthy living is obviously not a fad as it has now become a lifestyle for some. One thing a true fitness aficionado will tell you is that exercise and diet are paramount to health and weight loss. You can't keep loading yourself with the normal mountains of foofoo and garri then expect the pounds to fall off except you have a special metabolism like a family friend I know who can swallow an elephant and yet still have a flat tummy and look like he's a refugee. However, nothing in life is cast in stone: for instance have you ever wondered why our rural folks who don't gym, subsist on majorly carbohydrate(that has become taboo these days) based meals never get fat? That being said, diet is important. When my brother started his weight loss program, his fridge reflected it. My mom said there was nothing to eat in his fridge; but what she meant was nothing familiar. After successfully evicting the pounds he moved unto muscle building, his diet too reflected this. He is a fitness aficionado. Recently I met someone else who claimed to be one in shopsomthing the babe was loading her cart with canned foods and all these oyibo vegetables. I couldn't contain myself I had to ask her why she was buying vegetables there when there were our own local markets that she could get fresh veggies that have not been preserved with chemicals. She said she doesn't like open markets. I wanted to take this babe to school. But not just her. The irony of it is that the oyibo health buffs go for organic foods which are more expensive over there but here that we have them in surplus we don't appreciate them. Rather we gorge ourselves with oyibo foods and start to have diseases which were foreign to us before all in the name of trend.