In a recent video that has raised reactions on social media, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, General Overseer of Christ Embassy Church has advised Africans to desist from eating corn as it causes hypertension.
The popular clergyman in the video said corn is responsible for the many past cases of hypertension that has caused loss of lives.
Hypertension is when the pressure in your blood vessels is too high at 140/90 mmHg or higher. It is common but can be serious if not treated. People with high blood pressure may not feel symptoms. The only way to know is to get your blood pressure checked.
Oyakhilome in the video said “I know you heard that the highest consumers of corn are the United States and China.What you did not hear was what kind of consumption.
“They don’t consume it as much as those in Africa as per digesting it into your system.They use it for a whole lot of other things and export a lot of those products to Africa.
“When they say they consume, they are not eating them like you are eating them and that is why you have to do something.
“You have to think again because the earlier you stop it, the better because no one is giving you this information.They are not telling you that the unexplained hypertension that your grandfather, father and grand uncle suffered with and that you are probably suffering has something to do with corn”
