Category: health
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Bank on Me: Breast Milk Donations to Help Vulnerable Kids
The importance of breast milk to infant nutrition is second to none. In fact, WHO in acknowledging the same has encouraged exclusive breastfeeding and skin-to-skin practice to reduce infant mortality rates and donated breast milk as the first alternative for premature babies and low birth weight babies. A move that has since seen over 600…
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Love Letter to the culture
Love letter to the culture. Tonight I can’t sleep. I’m in my feelings. Yesterday was a good day, but I can’t get this off my mind. Forget all this tossing and turning; let’s rewind it a couple of months.
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Are you living a healthy sexual life?
Are you living a healthy sexual life? Sexuality is a central part of who we are as human beings. Our abilities and choices around reproduction, intimacy, and sexual expression are very crucial. The study of human sexuality as a science from the early 19th century has advanced our knowledge in understanding sexuality issues that have…
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Obesity Among Kenyan and Canadian Children-By Dr Stella Muthuri
Dr. Stella Muthuri research aimed at investigating the prevalence of, and factors associated with physical activity and overweight/obesity among school aged children in Kenya and Canada. This research involved examining the influence of social determinants of health such as school environments, neighborhoods, and home environments, and their effects on youth in relation to physical activity…
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Sickle Strong Initiative – Dr. Marie Ojiambo
I was born into a family of four (second born) children where my brother, our first born also suffers full-blown sickle cell disease. My two younger siblings do not suffer the condition, one having normal hemoglobin while the other is a carrier but totally asymptomatic for the disease. My family has learnt how to work…
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Is a Fruitarian diet for you?
So what exactly is a fruitarian diet you ask? You have probably heard of a vegetarian or vegan diet. In case you haven’t, here is a simple definition: A vegetarian is someone who does not consume meat and a vegan is someone who does not consume any animal products i.e. no meat, no dairy, not…
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Why Aren’t You A Vegan?
Let’s talk about a topic so frequently overlooked, especially in our Afrikan spheres: the vegan diet! Yes, that stupid fad of refusing the consumption of animal products, as some would put it. You see, whenever It’s dinner time and I bring my “untraditional” diet to the table, I’m usually met with questions like: “Why are…
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The Crazy Project: Talking About Mental Health
The mental health commission of Canada reports that one in five Canadians experiences a mental health problem or illness, with a cost to the countries economy of well in excess of $50 billion. That only “one in three people who experience a mental health problem or illness — and as few as one in four children…
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#KWIBUKA20: Let’s Talk Mental Health
Our community was greatly affected by the genocide and exposure to so many traumatic events that left so many children, women and men having to live with haunting memories and who have to find ways to cope with life and post genocide scars.
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Kwibuka20; Twenty Years In The Mind Of A WarChild
20 years ago this week, Rwandans who had long believed that God walked the world during the day and slept in Rwanda were left to deal with the worst possible evil when God presumably forgot about the tiny African country!! As we commemorate 20 years since the genocide I’ve found courage to share a little…