Topic: Nutrition

Nutrition: Missing pillar in Kenya's healthcare system

By George Omollo   2025-01-05 17:18:22

Cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy benefit from high-protein and high-calorie diets to combat weight loss.

Competition launched to tackle malnutrition

By Kipsang Joseph   2024-10-25 15:14:06

Recent statistics by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition show that at least 23 million people are undernourished.

Nutrition and education in focus as Kenya marks World Food Day

By Paul Mbugua   2024-10-16 20:00:56

As Kenya commemorated World Food Day on October 16, attention continues to focus on Africa’s dual crises of malnutrition and educational inequality.

UN food program helps fight rising cases of malnutrition in Malawi

By VOA   2024-10-08 06:03:29

In Malawi, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) is working to address a rising number of malnourished children amid an ongoing drought, the worst to hit southern Africa in decades.

Nutritionists decry being ignored as malnutrition cases soar

By Chebet Birir   2024-09-30 15:22:28

Okeyo argues that many nutritionists have not registered their details on the digital database and many have not been licensed, hence cannot easily get employed.

Gates Foundation urges increased global health spending to avert malnutrition crisis

By Sharon Wanga   2024-09-18 18:54:57

World leaders are being urged to increase health funding to improve child nutrition and mitigate the impact of climate change, according to a new report by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.