LIVE HEALTHY –DR. KEN ABOAH ADVISES CHRISTIANS

Dr. Ken Aboah, a consultant Urologist with the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi has asked Christians to pay attention to health issues confronting them and strive to lead healthy lives.

 Speaking on the topic “Ten Steps to Healthy Living,” at the just ended Teshie-Nungua Area Medical School, Dr. Aboah who is also a Barrister at law read 3rd John 1 and 2 and said the verse promises both good health and prosperity.

He said the fact that your grandmother or your mother suffered from breast cancer does not mean you are also going to suffer from the same disease.

 He encouraged Christians to indulge in preventive Prayers by praying out various disease from their lineage; “Just say my children will never have it, and my grandchildren will never have it and add that   by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed.” he said.

He drew an analogy between two biblical characters namely   Moses and Eli. He said while Eli died as a fat man at the age of 98 years with very little physical activity, Moses died at the age of 120 and was very strong and could climb any mountain because he had been walking on the desert for 40 years.

Dr. Aboah read biblical texts from Deuteronomy 34 and Samuel 4:15-18.

“Moses could climb every mountain, he could see far. He walked for 40 years and they eat natural things. Natural things will make you live long,” Dr. Aboah said adding, In   Genesis 1:29. God gave us plants for food.”

He said healthy diet include fruits and vegetables as well as water.   Dr. Aboah warned church members against the use of excessive salt.   “Salt is bad. 25% of adult Ghanaians are hypertensive partly due to high salt intake. He also spoke against the use of oils and encouraged Ghanaians to rather focus on consuming fatty fish and chicken. “Fish oil is good for the heart, Oil in meat is bad for the heart.”

 Dr. Ken Aboah also said fasting is very good and helps in the cleansing and internal hygiene of the body

“The day you fast, that is the day the body cleanses itself, drink a lot of water when you are fasting, you can fast on fruits and vegetables,” he said.

 Dr. Aboah further recommended physical activities or exercises as well as consistent devotional lives.

He explained further that 60% of diseases are related to stress. He said the worse form of stress is unforgiveness.  “If you don’t forgive a person, that person will attend your funeral, go and have reconciliation,” he said.

He further recommended that people living with hypertension   should go to waterfalls and seaside. You will experience great healings.

Quoting David in Psalm 23, Dr. Aboah said taking time to visit serene and quite environments is a great remedy to the human body and mind.

He encouraged all to stay within the normal BMI which ranges from 15-25.

Again, he said good marriage relationship promotes good health while cleanliness and hygiene are all encouraged in the promotion of health.

Dr. Aboah further advised participants of the medical school to avoid self-medication, addiction to enema and go for regular medical checkup.

Dr. Aboah also talked on Prostate enlargement and its various treatments and said it is wrong for people to assume that retention of urine is caused by promiscuity among men. Sex he said does not constitute prostate enlargement.

He advised all men above 40 years to have their prostate test or PSA done at least annually to prevent prostate cancer and prostate enlargement as they grow.

On impotence, Dr. Aboah said now treatment is available for all forms of impotence to enable married men live happily with their partners. He said men who have become ‘weak’ due to diabetes and other social problems can all be assisted with various devices, some implanted into the scrotum and other reusable devices and drugs which are available. He advised men suffering from impotence to seek help at the right facilities and not keep the problems to themselves.

  

The school featured seasoned doctors including Dr. Prosper K Moh, An Orthopaedic Surgeon from St John of God Hospital Duayaw Nkwanta in the Brong -Ahafo Region; Elder Dr. Joseph osafo, a Clinical Psychologist and Sociologist; Deaconess Dr. Constance Bart- Plange, epidemiologist and Malariologist; Dr. Mrs. Agnes Asare, an Obstetrics/ Gynecologist from Tarkwa Church of Pentecost. 

The Area Head Prophet James Osei Amaniampong was of the view that the Area seeks to bring the hospital closer to the people.

By Isabella Gyau Orhin