Inspite of the pain and suffering he has endured, i found him in a cheerful mood and high spirits ~ Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan visiting Kibra MP Ken Okoth who is in Paris for medical treatment.#GetWellsoonMhesh#WeShallOvercome pic.twitter.com/vyIr1NcXZy
— The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) March 25, 2019
I just found out he has stage 4 colon cancer. The man is barely forty. What’s causing the cancer epidemic in Kenya?Inspite of the pain and suffering he has endured, i found him in a cheerful mood and high spirits ~ Kamukunji MP Yusuf Hassan visiting Kibra MP Ken Okoth who is in Paris for medical treatment.#GetWellsoonMhesh#WeShallOvercome pic.twitter.com/vyIr1NcXZy
— The Standard Digital (@StandardKenya) March 25, 2019
HIV - and maybe Aflotoxin.
Stop being stupid and have at least empathy for the man even if he is not Kalejin.
I was answering the epidemic part. I don't know the medical history of Ken Okoth - who I find to be a very nice man - an excellent humanbeing - who is doing something about Kibera - something Raila never could do.
I cannot remember during Raila's time as MP of Kibera there being anything equivalent of today's CDF or did you want him to finance everything from his pocket?
Btw, CDF or whatever is called today is illegal. The High Court of Kenya determined it so and only the current government ignored the court order.
Now to colon cancer. This is mainly caused by modern day diet. At satge 4 one has only minimum chances of surving the next 12 months.
Pundit, even in the Western world where HIV plays a minimal role the cases of cancer are increasing. Of course an aging society tends to have an increase in cancer cases, but peging it mainly to HIV is being a bit blind. Even the poor in Kenyan cities are breathing the fumes from vehicles, are consuming processed food like maizemeal, mbogas from intoxicated fields etc. being poor does not mean you live automatically a healthy life.
People can be exposed to aflatoxins by eating contaminated plant products (such as peanuts) or by consuming meat or dairy products from animals that ate contaminated feed. Farmers and other agricultural workers may be exposed by inhaling dust generated during the handling and processing of contaminated crops and feeds.
Aflatoxin angle is disturbing. Especially when it comes to food storage. In a country with those levels of corruption, inspections and maintaining of standards can be a nighmare.
It looks like there are just too many ways for it to get into the system. But why is it a problem now, when it wasn’t in the seventies for instance? Or is it just a reflection of the fact that we are now more exposed to the information? Why does a guy with all the health perks of an MP still catch his cancer at stage 4?
Looks like the only way to avoid cancer is to check out.
Okoth's cancer may be hereditary.
I think population explosion may account for the increased instances. That plus more focus on the disease
Yabbut not in your early forties.
On a separate note, my Naija doctor recently shared some insight I had not observed. That the African Negro in a modern setting is suffering a health crisis because his body is adapted to something else. An environment in which food only appears after substantial physical effort.
But now he does not have to burn as much energy to get substantially more food, but his body hasn't changed. He still reacts to food the way his ancestors are wired to react. And the Negro does not visit the doctor unless he is hurting(usually a sign that it's too late). So we are getting clobbered by illnesses at a rate that they do not affect bazungu. I mean Okoth must have gone through cancer stage 1(ignored it), stage 2(ignored it), stage 3(still ignored it), until it was too late.
Even with regular exercise, we need to pay more attention to what we are eating, how much and how often just to avoid getting sick.
Yabbut not in your early forties.
On a separate note, my Naija doctor recently shared some insight I had not observed. That the African Negro in a modern setting is suffering a health crisis because his body is adapted to something else. An environment in which food only appears after substantial physical effort.
But now he does not have to burn as much energy to get substantially more food, but his body hasn't changed. He still reacts to food the way his ancestors are wired to react. And the Negro does not visit the doctor unless he is hurting(usually a sign that it's too late). So we are getting clobbered by illnesses at a rate that they do not affect bazungu. I mean Okoth must have gone through cancer stage 1(ignored it), stage 2(ignored it), stage 3(still ignored it), until it was too late.
Even with regular exercise, we need to pay more attention to what we are eating, how much and how often just to avoid getting sick.
?; A sample from back in the roots indicates otherwise. You have casual laborers - mjengo crew the trek to work variety - in the ward.
Yabbut not in your early forties.
On a separate note, my Naija doctor recently shared some insight I had not observed. That the African Negro in a modern setting is suffering a health crisis because his body is adapted to something else. An environment in which food only appears after substantial physical effort.
But now he does not have to burn as much energy to get substantially more food, but his body hasn't changed. He still reacts to food the way his ancestors are wired to react. And the Negro does not visit the doctor unless he is hurting(usually a sign that it's too late). So we are getting clobbered by illnesses at a rate that they do not affect bazungu. I mean Okoth must have gone through cancer stage 1(ignored it), stage 2(ignored it), stage 3(still ignored it), until it was too late.
Even with regular exercise, we need to pay more attention to what we are eating, how much and how often just to avoid getting sick.
?; A sample from back in the roots indicates otherwise. You have casual laborers - mjengo crew the trek to work variety - in the ward.
Theirs is undernourishment. It’s almost always ugali - with refined flour - and some inadequate serving of “mboga” sourced from dubious places. That’s suicide for the immune system.