According to recent findings from the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2022, a majority of women in Kiambu County are grappling with weight issues.
In the county, it is evident from the data that 55.6 per cent of women aged 20-49 are either overweight or obese. This percentage is significantly higher compared to the 28 per cent of men in the same age group. This disparity in weight could potentially be attributed to the prevalence of sugary beverage consumption, which stands at a staggering 85 per cent as well as the consumption of unhealthy foods, which stands at 52 per cent. These statistics were gathered from a comprehensive survey that included over 15,000 women and 13,253 men.
At the data release event held in Thika town on Monday, the Director General of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics Dr. Macdonald Obudho highlighted the positive performance of Kiambu County in different areas. However, he acknowledged that the county is facing considerable obstacles in terms of obesity and overweight. Dr Obudho called upon the county government and policymakers to leverage this data to create impactful interventions that tackle the nutrition and health issues faced by the community.
“From the data, Kiambu County is doing well in many other areas compared to most counties. However, it is struggling with nutrition and thus the need for policy makers to allocate enough resources to address the challenge,” said Dr Obudho.
To combat the issue of obesity, he emphasized their collaboration with community health advocates to educate the public about the importance of adopting healthy behaviours. Dr Kigo highlighted the implementation of a successful school feeding program in all Early Childhood and Development Education (ECDE) centres across the county, specifically addressing concerns such as stunted growth, underweight, and thinness in children.
Eating fast food like pigs…
Eating fast food like pigs will make you fat like pigs ?, it is so simple!!!
Kiambu folks are rich and…
Kiambu folks are rich and they should happily suffer the consequences.
“From the data, Kiambu…
“From the data, Kiambu County is doing well in many other areas compared to most counties. However, it is struggling with nutrition and thus the need for policy makers to allocate enough resources to address the challenge,” said Dr Obudho.
Let me make it clear for you folks. The doctor is saying that there is so much food in Kiambu that women there are spoiled for choice.To me it looks like a nice problem to have.The solution is to each less,and ship some to Samburu…
With men, after imbibing the local brew,there is not much room for food.
Well my remark at alittle flippant ,but any educated person would know that this is a serious matter.
30 years ago, this kind of problems were unheard in Kenya,and africa at large.
This trend is worry some on many fronts-health,family,finance,fun,and time off work,or reduced production.
Let’s hope that ten years from now, we shall not be reading the same story,or worse.The starting point is to educated the masses ,and then emphasizing personal responsibility.On that point, I guess we need more MONEY.
Here is the beef, due to…
Here is the beef, due to greed and incompetent local and national governments, people are selling their precious land for short term profits! The land that they used to grow organic nutritious healthy food. After selling their land which then becomes concrete jungles and updated ghettos, they now have to rely on bad food such as cheap fast foods! Thus, they get fat, sickly, and eventually broke and homeless!!!
Anyone seen that far yet! Greed is only good to an extent!!! In our shìthole, greed is multiplied by corruption exponentially which will result to self destruction!!! Unsustainable
I think a more sedentary…
I think a more sedentary lifestyle is a contributor to this condition. Those that struggle to make ends meet daily are still quite thin. I was in the 254 after a a couple of weeks back and I noticed that even among my own family, the very well to do were thin(exercise clubs), the middle class were fat(easy access to food and motorized transportation) and the poor were thin(less fattening foods and their feet were their only carriage-Marley). I do remember previous droughts where the less arid regions had food but couldn’t get it to the more arid areas due to transportation issues.
@ Mundumugo,certainly the…
@ Mundumugo,certainly the two culprits are “bad diet”,and lack of sufficient exercise. No doubt people dont walk as much as they used to before the introduction of bodaboda.
When I was in 254 afew months ago,people in the village were surprised that I chose to walk any distance of 5 miles or less.This was common for alot of villagers in the past 20 years.Not anymore.Add that to chapatis, choma,white cap,and chips ,and the combination is “visceral fat”
Tatizo kubwa linalowakumba…
Tatizo kubwa linalowakumba dada zetu wa Kaunti ya Kiambu ni kutofanya mazoezi ya kutosha kulingana na chakula kingi wanachokula.
People are quickly copying…
People are quickly copying everything Western countries, especially dietwise to look classy. Bure kabisa! Eat your own traditional diet, and grow more of them in your own kitchen gardens and farms.
Another stupid thing people are doing is just building concrete structures(mburoti)in every square inch available, leaving no arable pieces of land in sight.
@ Mteja
We are a group of…
@ Mteja
We are a group of people that are hacked physically and psychologically beyond redemption – HBR (Hacked Beyond Redemption). What is the evidence?
1. We have colonial/slave, Biblical – Jewish names, and Quranic- based Arabic names.
2. We speak former colonial languages at home with our immediate family members, relatives, and friends.
3. We worship colonial and or slave-based religions.
4. We have abandoned our excellent cultural constructs in favor of our current slave/colonial based decadent cultures.
5. We are ashamed of our hair texture and the color of our skin. In addition, we are ashamed of eating our nutritious traditional foods that we inherited from our ancestors before the importation of junk foods and drinks from elsewhere..
6. We worship and adore foreign heroes.
7. We deny the fact that we existed as a people before the illegal invasion of land-hungry thieves from Europe and the Arabian countries.
CONCLUSION:
Unless we do something or act immediately in order to rescue and protect the little good attributes that we still possess from our ancestorial cultures, we will be like our formerly lost brothers and sisters that we lost through the process of slavery in diaspora over 400 hundred years ago.
Well said @Imara Daima. We…
Well said @Imara Daima. We will end up like our Nyeuthi over here. That was the original goal of colonization, and they won’t stop until…..our once cherished culture is eroding away each day. Our kids do not speak the same language we were brought up speaking…Same sex is being preached by the same masters in all corners, including the recent announcement by the world’s largest Anglo-church… Polygamy, although it was in the biblical times, is being substituted with this filth of same gender relations. Basically, no procreation resulting from such relations.
Bure kabisa!
Wah, mnaona vile Shiku…
Wah, mnaona vile Shiku amebeba?
This is personal business…
This is personal business and should be left to the individual.
No interference needed.
Let each person mind his or her own business.
Every person is guaranteed liberty and life.
Keep off personal business
That’s where Blue Band…
That’s where Blue Band Margarine started…lol