24/08/2025
Learning!!
HOW FAMILIES PASS DOWN DISEASE
Families in Nigeria love to talk about “inheritance.”
Land. Houses. Cars. Money.
But what most families actually inherit is sickness.
Hypertension at 45.
Stroke at 55.
Diabetes before 50.
Kidney failure before pension.
And everybody says, “It runs in our family.”
Let’s be honest — what runs in your family is not DNA.
It’s rice, stew floating in oil, soft drinks, bread, and late-night eating.
Your father didn’t hand you genes for hypertension.
He handed you beer and goat meat every weekend.
Your mother didn’t give you diabetes.
She gave you Puff-Puff and orange juice at every children’s party.
Your aunty didn’t give you weak kidneys.
She gave you the habit of pouring seasoning cubes into everything until the food turned chemical.
This is not family curse.
It’s family culture.
Culture of overeating.
Culture of no sleep.
Culture of celebrating everything with sugar.
Culture of calling pot belly “enjoyment.”
Culture of normalizing death in the 50s and calling it “old age.”
So the cycle repeats:
One generation buries the next,
and still sits down to eat the same poisoned plate after the funeral.
And you? You may be next in line.
Unless you rebel.
Unless you refuse the plate.
Unless you call nonsense what it is — nonsense.
Because here’s the truth:
You are not doomed by your family history.
You are only doomed if you continue your family habits.
You can stop the inheritance today.
You can break the chain.
You can pass down something different — strength, health, freedom.
But if you refuse,
your children will bury you the same way you buried your father.
And they will repeat the same excuse:
“It runs in the family.”
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