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Here is why you shouldn’t drink Palm Wine often.
Palm wine is a fun beverage that comes loaded with many health benefits. However, these reasons will make you think twice before indulging in the drinking pastime.
In considering the benefits of drinking palm wine, we must also be cautious about the adverse effects that excess intake bring.
It causes fat to accumulate in the liver.
Since the lifespan of palm wine is only 12 hours, that means what we mostly have is fermented palm wine which destroys the kidney, liver and other systems in the body. This can also cause hypertension.
It can cause miscarriages, still births and some abnormalities in babies because of its high alcoholic content.
Alcohol is capable of crossing the placenta into the fetus causing fetal alcohol syndrome.
This can lead to mental retardation and make a child to have a low intelligence quotient (IQ) and hence will be dull in school or any other activity that requires some level of IQ.
CAUTION FOR BUYING PALM WINE
When buying Palm Wine, uou should be careful with your source of palm wine. In villages and places with an abundance of palm trees, it is very easy to get fresh palm wine.
When sources are scarce, palm wine sellers are known to dilute fresh palm wine with water and add artificial sweeteners like saccharine to make it sweet. The resulting wine is lighter than the normal palm wine and can be spotted easily, but some vendors also add cassava starch to the palm wine to conceal their debauchery and make it whiter.
Drinking adulterated palm wine can cause:
Diarrhea, stomach upset and other water borne diseases if unclean water was used to dilute the palm wine.
The artificial sweetener and sugars used can increase the risk of having type 2 diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases.
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