SV: {UAH} Allan/Pojim/WBK: Africa sprints into obesity with fast food, flashy cars and shopping malls | The Star, Kenya

POJIM,

Please do not be shy about cooking. What is wrong with cooking which GOOK is thinking it about negatively? On the other hand if the Lady of the House had gone to work and GOOK came home earlier can he not help to cook and, or wash the clothes and even cleaning the house?

I think, GOOK must remove NAGONG-GERA and, or Tororo from himself but be a boy from ÖREBRO in Sweden! Old OCAYA even cooks and do some cleanings!

Cheers

Den onsdag, 15 juni 2016 22:01 skrev Gook <grakanga@gmail.com>:

Pojim,

That's is an African life style...one which I greatly miss? Why head straight home to help with the washings and....house cleaning and God forbid even cooking!

Sent from Gook's iPatch!

"What you are we once were, what we are   you shall be!"

An inscription on the walls of a Roman catacomb.

On 15 jun 2016, at 18:58, "'Edward Pojim' via Ugandans at Heart (UAH) Community"<ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Ocen;

For for the life of me, I've never understood the rationale for a working person to head straight to the bar after work! And they do it every day. On weekends, it becomes a ritual - from as early as 2 PM to late at night, folks squander away family money on booze and roasted meats.

The fascination with big-size women has its origin in the cultural belief that a large woman produces health babies. In the advent of Aids, large size became instant confirmation that there's no virus in that body! This unscientific, purely wishful thinking, has caused Africa lives, and continues to drain resources.

Pojim

On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 4:21 AM, Moses Ocen Nekyon <musanap@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/06/15/africa-sprints-into-obesity-with-fast-food-flashy-cars-and-shopping_c1369667

Africa sprints into obesity with fast food, flashy cars and shopping malls

With more money in their pockets, Africans are eating more fast food and adopting more sedentary lifestyles, leading to a surge in obesity and associated diseases like diabetes and cancer, experts said on Tuesday.

Rates of obesity and overweight are rising in nearly every country in the world, the Global Nutrition Report said, describing malnutrition as the "new normal".

One in three people worldwide are experiencing malnutrition, it said, with 44 percent of countries facing serious levels of both undernutrition and obesity.

Obesity is a form of malnutrition as the body does not receive sufficient nutrients and people have too much salt, sugar or cholesterol in their blood.

"Many countries now across the continent are facing a double burden of malnutrition," Shane Norris, a nutrition expert at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a phone interview.

"There's still persistent undernutrition in early life and overweight and obesity in later life."

While undernutrition is falling globally, few countries are succeeding in tackling obesity and the four main non-communicable diseases (NCD) linked to it: diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases.

NCDs are projected to become the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030, according to the World Bank.

Cultural cues

South Africa is the most obese country in sub-Saharan Africa, Norris said, with over 40 per cent of adults overweight or obese.

Other rapidly urbanising African countries are following suit, with middle classes often queuing at fashionable fast food restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken.

"The malls are the 'in' thing," said Zachary Muriuki, a nutritionist specialising in diabetes with Kenya's health ministry.

"We are seeing a trend of obesity cases rising," he said, blaming unhealthy diets and increased use of cars.

In Kenya, 84 per cent of people always or often add sugar to their food and drinks, while 94 per cent of people eat less than the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, government data shows.

Culture also plays a role, particularly for women who are seen as successful, happily married and healthy when they are overweight, experts said.

"Being overweight is seen as a positive thing," said Norris, adding that South Africans believe it means someone does not have HIV/Aids, which often leads to weight loss.

The report called for donors to spend more on non-communicable diseases, which accounted for less than two percent of their health spending in 2014.

Testing and treatment for malaria and HIV/Aids is often free, which is not the case for NCDs, Muriuki said.

Non-communicable diseases account for half of hospital admissions in Kenya, the government says.

"Long term management of these diseases is very expensive," Muriuki said. "We are struggling. as a country, trying to manage cancer. We have cases and cases in our hospitals lining up to go through chemotherapy."

Africa sprints into obesity with fast food, flashy cars and shopping malls | The Star, Kenya

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