Nutrition & Public Health
Research, analysis, and field reports on nutrition and public health challenges across Kenya.
Why your grocery receipt disagrees with the official inflation rate, who actually absorbs the shock, what drives Kenyan food prices, and the policy conversation we should be having.
African indigenous vegetables are back on the Nairobi shelf — and now cost more than sukuma. The science, the comeback story, who profited, and the public-health policy moves still missing.
An honest career guide for nutrition students in Kenya — degrees, KNDI registration, where the jobs actually are, the salary reality, and the seven paths a graduate can take.
What's actually happening to your body the morning after, why the kibanda soup is partly right, and the supposed remedies that don't work. A nutritionist's no-judgement guide.
Kenya is Africa's largest avocado exporter. Smallholder farmers are earning more — and their grandchildren eat less of the fruit. A nutritionist's take on the boom, the asymmetry, and the policy fixes.
Between the under-five window and antenatal care lies a 15-year nutritional silence. Why adolescent-girl nutrition is Kenya's quietest gap — and the highest-leverage intervention nobody is pitching.
How much protein you actually need, where to get it cheapest in Kenya, the cost-per-gram table for every common source, and whether a Nairobi lifter really needs imported whey.
Every donor meeting ends with the same question: what's actually working? The polite NGO answer is dishonest and the honest answer is professionally safer than it looks. From inside the sector.
Kenya mandated maize flour fortification in 2012. Compliance audits show the bag often doesn't deliver the iron, zinc, and folate it claims. A blunt look at why — and what a working audit regime would do.
The mandazi-soda-Lucozade loop that's quietly fattening Nairobi's desk workers — and a working system to survive a Westlands office without giving up real food, time, or money.
Tea after meals, brown bread, water with food, mangoes at night, and the avocado panic. A nutritionist gently audits the food rules every Kenyan family swears by.
Twelve years and billions of shillings later, Kenya's Galana-Kulalu Food Security Project is the country's most expensive lesson in why mega-farms don't feed nations — and why we keep funding them anyway.
Done right, plant-based eating is cheaper than meat in Kenya — but only if you ignore the imported aisle. The real Kenyan plant-based pyramid, the protein math, and a sustainable weekly plan.
Why Kenya's stunting rate has stalled at one in five, what's missing from the standard playbook, and the cross-sectoral policy moves that would actually shift the curve.
A personal essay on moving from clinical nutrition to partnerships and donor work in Kenya. The patient I still think about, what I gained, what I lost, and what I'd tell a younger me.
