Residents Urged to Promote Healthy Food
Nandi residents have been urged to foster healthy eating habits and to be more proactive in ensuring they consumed healthy food.
Consuming a healthy diet from pre-birth to the last days of life is vital to prevent all forms of malnutrition as well as diabetes, cancers and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
Speaking at Full Gospel Churches of Kenya – Maraba in Soba/Songhor Ward in Tinderet Sub County, the CEC for Health and Sanitation Ruth Koech urged parents to foster healthy eating habits in their children, to encourage them to practice good nutrition as they grow older and avoid the hazards of unhealthy eating such as obesity.
She was representing the Nandi County First Lady H.E Sheilah Sang at the fundraiser in aid of the Church.
Ruth said that by taking steps to provide children healthier environments regarding the types of foods and drinks they are offered and helping caregivers work together towards common goals, we can improve the nutritional status of our children.
“Nutrition during early childhood has short- and long-term impact on physical, emotional, social, and cognitive health and development,” she noted.
Regardless of the setting, children need to have access to healthy foods and adults who encourage consumption of these foods. Overall diet quality could greatly increase through ensuring consistent access and support to consume more vegetables, particularly greens and beans and seafood and plant proteins, less sodium and added sugars, and to substitute whole grains for refined grains.
Present at the fundraiser were Bomet’s First Lady H.E Saline Barchok and Tinderet MP spouse Mrs Salina Meli and Chief Officer Jonah Tireito.
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