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PREVENTIVE CARE THE WAY TO GO AS TREATMENT COSTS BECOME UNBEARABLE

By George Gichuki

One of the most  significant ways of preventing the onset of diseases is taking the right food. The mantras : let   food become   your medicine or medicine will become your food, you are what you eat and food is your best medicine etcetera  are currently   dominating   presentations of health professionals   in the mainstream and social media among other platforms. As a matter of fact, preventive care as a means of checking the onset and spread of diseases is better and by far more cost effective   than curative care.  Taking a balanced diet is a key component of  curative care which also includes  check-ups and immunization  programmes.

This campaign continues to gain traction due  to the   rising  cost of treatment in the country today , as cases of life threatening diseases ( like diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular ) increase.  Many households have been forced to pay an arm and a leg in order to settle the huge medical costs incurred by their ailing members.  Some have even been  forced to travel abroad to seek specialized  treatment and this has come at a huge cost.  In the process, they have  conducted fundraisers which have left their friends and relatives with heavy financial burdens. This often  happens at the curative  care stages of the diseases in question. In that regard,  there is   need to pay more attention to preventive care  since it is friendlier and cost effective.

Nevertheless, the popularization of preventive care  through different media platforms needs to be taken with a lot of caution. Pseudo health professionals are making a fortune from innocent  people seeking preventive care by selling to them fake healthy food concoctions and offering  misguiding advice.  Against this background, we need to go back to our roots. Our forefathers used to grow and take healthy food and little wonder, few of them were attacked by life threatening diseases. They would for instance  boil ( as opposed to frying) their food which was not only pocket friendly, but also  healthier.  

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