25/11/2025
Recurrent Infections in Kids = Weak Diets, Not “Village People.”
African parents, let’s talk.
Every time your child catches a cold, has cough, catarrh, or malaria, you run to prayer houses.
You start shouting:
“Village people!”
“Spiritual attack!”
But the truth?
It’s not witchcraft.
It’s weak nutrition.
Recurrent infections in kids are not normal.
They are the body’s way of saying:
“I don’t have enough nutrients to defend myself.”
Your child’s immune system is like soldiers at war.
No matter how strong or brave they are, if they don’t have weapons, they’ll keep losing battles.
And the “weapons” of immunity come from food.
Protein deficiency is one of the biggest problems.
Your child can’t build immune cells from biscuits and noodles.
They need eggs, beans, fish, meat, etc.
Without these, infections keep coming back.
Then comes lack of vitamins and minerals.
Vitamin C from certain fruits and veggies like guava, lemon, broccoli, tomato etc., strengthens their immunity.
Zinc from beans, groundnuts, eggs helps fight infections.
Iron from liver and vegetables powers immune cells.
But instead, most children are being fed bread and soda every day.
Too much sugar and processed food makes things worse.
Sugar weakens the immune system for hours after eating.
That daily soda, sweets, and pastries?
They’re making your child’s body too weak to fight germs.
Seed oils and junk fats don’t help either.
All those fried snacks inflame the body and distract the immune system from doing its real job — defense.
Let’s be honest.
If the same child who eats balanced meals is falling sick less often, is that also “village people”?
Weak diets create weak immunity.
Strong diets create strong children.
Stop outsourcing responsibility to witches when the real problem is in the kitchen.
So what can you do?
— Give them eggs several times a week.
— Add vegetables to their rice and other foods.
— Replace soda with water and fresh fruit.
— Pack healthy school lunch instead of snacks, pastries and soda.
— Make sure they eat protein with every meal.
Because medicine helps them recover…
But nutrition decides whether they keep falling sick.
So next time your child catches the third infection this term, ask yourself:
Is it truly “village people”?
Or is it that their diet is too weak to defend them?
Recurrent infections in kids = weak diets, not “village people.”
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