Avoid fast foods to fend off non-communicable diseases

Kenya’s middle class is increasingly abandoning traditional, healthy foods for the more glamorous yet unhealthy junk foods leading to an increase in lifestyle diseases among the population.

Diets high in fats, sugar and salt content, and low in fibre have been well accommodated as a norm and is considered as a standard of an improved standard of living, better incomes and adoption of western lifestyles.