YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR WEALTH – MENTOR SACCO MEMBERS ADVISED
Even as we strive to achieve our financial goals, it is important to lead a healthy lifestyle. Our heath is our wealth. That message came out strongly during the members’ education, training and information day in Gatanga sub-county. The facilitator was Stephen Riuki – a clinical nutritionist by profession. “ Information is power; my goal today was therefore to enhance the financial success of Mentor Sacco members by educating them on the importance of taking healthy food,” Riuki said. “ By so doing, they will minimize the risks of being attacked by lifestyle diseases which are more often than not very expensive to manage,” he added.
During his presentation, Riuki emphasized that dietary habits go a long way in determining how healthy one is. “ As much as we all have noble goals of accumulating savings and investments , ill health can drain all of it and hence the need to make the right food choices,” he cautioned. Riuki therefore advised members to embrace preventive measures ( as opposed to curative ones ) in order to keep diseases at bay.
Nature Riuki observed further freely provides a lot of things that help in the maintenance of good health – free sun, free air, and abundant water. By the same token, a variety of healthy vegetables grow naturally in our farms and even bushes. “ Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet after all need not be a costly affair,” he said. Finally, he advised members to remain faithful to their traditional diet …the diet of their forefathers.
