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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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this is from one of the links you have provided: " The average American consumes an astounding 2-3 pounds of sugar each week, which is not surprising considering that highly refined sugars in the forms of sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar), and high-fructose corn syrup are being processed into so many foods such as bread, breakfast cereal, mayonnaise, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and a plethora of microwave meals." Now anyone who consumes 1.5kg of sugar per week must be very unhealthy! And if you want proof; look at the size of the average American.... Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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Having said all that; I must emphasise that we need to CHECK the quantity of sugar that we take... TOO MUCH of it will harm us Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/4/2008 Posts: 2,849 Location: Rupi
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/25/2011 Posts: 368 Location: Nairobi
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mukiha wrote:Having said all that; I must emphasise that we need to CHECK the quantity of sugar that we take... TOO MUCH of it will harm us Hahahaaa. Okay. You have a point. now I have stopped bashing this fortification thing. Thanks
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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http://www.businessdaily...16/-/afwxvd/-/index.htmlNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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famooz wrote:It is Ok to fortify food, but i think the choice here is not good. Why not fortify jogoo,unga ya chapati,unga ya uji or even cereals??To me it feels like promoting a good thing with the wrong link........
A while a ago there was a proposal to fortify jogoo with folic acid to prevent neural tubal defects in newborns......i am not sure how this went but this is a better choice that fortifying sugar....my 2 cents. If the idea is to reach the populace as @Guka has said above then I don`t see those working well. Majority of Kenyans in the rural area mill their own maize and uji flour and chapati is a luxury. Sugar is used more by Kenyans than those. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/11/2010 Posts: 1,588
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Sources of vitamin a: liver, cod liver oil, carrot, broccoli, sweet potato, kale, spinach, pumpkin,egg, papaya, mango, pea, milk, lemons etc. Generally dark green and yellow vegetables and yellow fruits.
I think the unilever knorr beef cubes sukuma wiki campaign was more healthier and less of a capitalistic consumerism than this one. It is the one to be encouraged and supported, not this one of mumias.
'making it easier for those unable to get vitamin a' is a weak excuse. Why would or should anyone buy sugar to get vitamin A when one can get it direct from its source more easily? Isnt it, @ Dash?
This sugar approach does not make sense. Save your shillings instead.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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YesuWangu wrote:Sources of vitamin a: liver, cod liver oil, carrot, broccoli, sweet potato, kale, spinach, pumpkin,egg, papaya, mango, pea, milk, lemons etc. Generally dark green and yellow vegetables and yellow fruits.
I think the unilever knorr beef cubes sukuma wiki campaign was more healthier and less of a capitalistic consumerism than this one. It is the one to be encouraged and supported, not this one of mumias.
'making it easier for those unable to get vitamin a' is a weak excuse. Why would or should anyone buy sugar to get vitamin A when one can get it direct from its source more easily? Isnt it, @ Dash?
This sugar approach does not make sense. Save your shillings instead.
...and majority of the target take sugar packed in those transparent paper bags!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 677 Location: Nairobi
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The majority of slum dwellers feed on sukuma/ugali, githeri, and tea with bread/mandazi. @yesu wangu all the foods you mentioned are not even present in many non slum dwelling households. But what you almost never miss is sugar for tea. I will look for the study done by un/kemri to state exact figures of nutrition status in kenyan households then maybe you can appreciate the importance of this. There are numerous studies that have been conducted which some I have been involved in, and you will not take my word for it but this is a major step in preventing these deficiencies.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/11/2010 Posts: 1,588
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Oh, come on bwana Dash!
Have read what you have written here? Cant you see you have already mentioned sukuma wiki that 'the majority of slum dwellers feed on'?
Kales are sukuma wiki.
What did the studies recommend? More sugar? Why create more demand for sugar? Just to get vitamin a?
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