Reading Time: 3 minutes Looking around town today, the craze and the hype about tomorrow is too obvious. Restaurants are at it again and the menus are full of sugar and “love” foods that are “special” for the day! So today I decided to go to Java coffee house and find out just what do people eat during “love”
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March 04, 2014
Why You should Go Organic
Reading Time: 2 minutes When many hear about eating organic food, many think it is a boring thing let alone eating healthy. Going organic in your diet means consumption of food that has been grown void of fertilizers and other pesticides. I sought to know whether in Kenya there is an organic food spot and sale of food products
March 04, 2014
Magic Foods For BreastFeeding Mums?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many new moms wonder how breastfeeding will affect their diet. The mother in-law wants her to eat heavy foods, lots of porridge, food she has never even liked before in her life. So it becomes a dilemma for the new mother on what to eat. She wishes to eat what she wants but she is
March 04, 2014
Is The Brown Bread You Are Consuming The Real Health Deal?
Reading Time: 3 minutes With an increasing consciousness about health and hygiene, a large number of consumers are making the switch from white bread to brown bread or whole wheat bread at their breakfast tables. However, there is little awareness about why is brown bread considered healthy or what constitutes brown bread that makes it healthy. As a result,
February 13, 2014
Microwave:The Quick Fix That Could Be Your Worst Enemy
Reading Time: 4 minutes I remember the days when we prepared foods without microwaves, we used firewood, the stove and those who were privileged to have gas they were found to be rich. Today, the evolution has gone to instant cooking and warming of food without having to wait for hours before it is ready. Microwaves have become the
February 13, 2014
The Herbal Maasai Magic
Reading Time: 2 minutes From the last post the magic of the Maasai’s gait is profoundly related to their herbs intake. Most common names you hear among them are traditionally known olkinyei, jacket plum also known as oldimigomi, olsokonoi and olkiloriti. Ideally these are wildly grown among them and act as food additives for their meat and milk intake.
February 13, 2014
High Fat Foods,No cholestrol-The Maasai Community Secret
Reading Time: 2 minutes Every day in today’s hospitals is a day to treat heart disease, high blood pressure, high weight issues, and clogged arteries all due to high cholesterol diets that people have resulted to. However, this is not the case for the masaai people that eat highly unhealthy foods that consist of milk, meat and blood almost
February 13, 2014
The truth about Stevia-The substitute to Sugar
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today everyone wants to stay healthy and anything in the market that shouts that health literally earns the confidence of people in the Kenyan market. Diabetes has been on the rise today and the use of STEVIA leaves been up to substitute the white or brown sugar that is commonly used. So many do not
February 13, 2014
The Truth about alcohol and Beer Bellies
Reading Time: 3 minutes So in my line of consultancy, I have come across various people asking me what about beer? what about a little wine? and what if I am just the occasional drinker. I will first clarify that morally, I do not advocate for any amount of ingestion of alcohol. But then again choices in life are
February 13, 2014
Sleep Disorder? Treat it with Food!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Who does’nt love to sleep….its such a natural sweet thing inherent in all human kind.Its unexplainable how we r wired to close our eyes every night and become unconscious…such a wonderful thing.God in his own wisdom…knew we need quality sleep. But many people find it very difficult to sleep because either they are too tired