Cells in the body tend to grow, that is why you' ve grown taller when compared to when you were born, but when some of these cells in the body grow at an abnormal pace, it results in a term called Cancer. Cancer can occur in two ways, it can be genetic or it can be self- inflicted due to things that you eat and things you expose your bodies to.

These cancerous cells spread to other parts of the body and become harmful. Carcinogens are substances that cause cancers. Lifestyle, genetic and environmental factors play a huge role if we want to live a life that is devoid of cancerous cells. That is why we must be careful with preparing our choice of meal, what we expose our bodies to because these play an immense role if we want to live a healthy life.

Below are the 3 ingredients that you should limit their use when cooking and this would help a lot in preventing cancer and the self- inflicted kind of cancer.

Smoked Animal Products

Ghanaians use smoked fish and meat to prepare soups and stews. It is imperative that we cut down on these kinds of food because they contain benzpyrenes and anthracenes which are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by absorbing tar from smoke.

There is some evidence that showed that these cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons cause cancer of the skin, lung, and bladder.

Seasoning or Spices That Contains Mono Sodium Glutamate

Most people use seasoning and spices when cooking because they give our foods a salivating aroma and great taste.

Although MSG is important for the great taste and aroma in foods, this chemical can also be toxic to our bodies, from neurotoxic defects and obesity to cancer, the use of this chemical should be controlled.

Artificial Sweeteners

Examples of Artificial Sweeteners include; aspartame, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, neotame, and saccharin. Saccharine and refined white sugar should be avoided when preparing foods because this kind of sugars tends to increase blood sugar levels, which might lead to diabetes or can also increase the spread of cancerous cells across other cells in the body. This is because cancerous cells can easily break down these kinds of sugar and it makes them grow a lot faster.

It is recommended that you use fresh fish and meat in place of the smoked ones. For the seasoning and spices, you should try and avoid the spice that contains MSG and use natural spices like Thyme, curry, ginger, garlic and ground crayfish. Honey or brown sugar should be used in place of saccharin. By doing these things you have successfully cut down on some of the things that cause cancer.

Ponmo is cow skin which has been processed for consumers to cook and eat like beef. Over the years cow skin popularly called ponmo has become an important delicacy that is eaten by everyone. When you order a plate of eba and egusi soup, you buy ponmo and meat.

Ponmo is one of the popular meat in Nigeria. Many people believed that Ponmo contains some protein that helps the body to grow but the truth is that it did not contain any nutrients.

Ponmo is absolutely useless. It contains 0% Carbohydrates, 0% protein, 0% fat. It contains 0% nutrients.

So why eating it. Ponmo can even harm you, If it’s the burnt type you like, then that one most likely contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons gotten from burning meat that can lead to cancer which means that burnt Kpomo is unhealthy.

Normal Ponmo has no health benefits. Aside from the health another concern is how Ponmo was made as the process of burning Ponmo has called for a lot of health concern especially as one cannot dictate to another what should be thrown into the fire being used to burn this edible skin. As such, tyres, dustbin composite as well as other particles are added to the fire.