Medical missionary push for traditional diet for healthy living – Kenya News Agency

A member of the Medical Missionary Movement, African Chapter, Dr. Collins Warutere has called upon Kenyans to resort to eating traditional foods to help fight lifestyle diseases currently claiming lives of many people in the country.

Dr. Warutere says life threatening diseases like cancer, diabetes and pressure are on the increase among Africans and that it is only through improving on people’s diet by embracing traditional food that the vice can be reversed.

While presiding over a one-week religious conference in Migori County, the nutrition expert regretted that human beings have for a long time exposed their lives to the risks of contracting Cancer, Malaria and other opportunistic diseases by feeding on too many Western foods that lack natural ingredients.

Dr. Warutere, a chief guest speaker at the conference, explained that many people were always in love of filling their dining tables with food that are full of chemicals at the expense of the natural ones.

“We have abandoned our natural food that helps boost our immune system for the Western parked diet that only renders us sick. Traditional foods such as soya beans, green bananas, Millet, Cassava, Sorghum, vegetables, potatoes and groundnuts are more valuable in disease prevention and treatment than meat,” he told the forum that closed its door on Monday evening.

The man of Christian faith said that his movement was rooting for natural healings offered through consumption of traditional foods than waiting to seek for conventional treatment that is nowadays more disappointing because of the ineffectiveness of some generic drugs.

He said most of the stubborn diseases killing many people were being triggered from peoples’ lifestyle diet and it would be more important that Africans prioritised Nutritional medicines more.

Apart from healing diseases naturally, the traditional food were good from preventing opportunistic diseases that have become so resistant to the conventional drugs,” he added.

“The combination of natural food, good exercise, clean water, enough sunlight and oxygen, good rest and above all divine intervention, can be good for our health and a country’s development,” stressed Dr. Warutere.

During the Conference at Uriri Deputy County Commissioner’s recreational ground, participants from various Churches gave out testimonies and experiences with dangerous diseases but which they have healed from through reverting to safer diets.

Ms. Monica Atieno from Rongo PAG Church said she had fully healed from a life threatening Cancerous wound which she lived with for more than 10 years by eating traditional foods.

Her counterpart from Mawego Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Homa Bay County, Doreen Mayaka,  a Primary School Principal, said she got healed from unrelenting high pressure after turning to eating traditional foods.

Mr. peter Momanyi from Nyanturago Calvary Church said he had  turned to campaigning in Kisii region for a turn round to safer diets for his fellow citizens after enjoying the benefits of abandoning Western foods.

Mrs. Sarah Were, a Nairobi University trained Medical Doctor said she had resigned from her job in favour of  natural disease prevention and treatment by advocating for a change by Kenyans to embrace eating traditional foods.

As a victim of bad Western foods, she warned that unless Kenyans prioritize good table diets, people would continue to flood local hospitals with diseases that can be managed easily through simple and cheap foods.

The Conference was also attended by the Kenyan-born-Netherland citizen Reverend Water Okinyi who is the organization movement coordinator for Holland.

By George Agimba