Kisumu residents have been asked to keep fit and engage in regular exercises to avoid lifestyle diseases.
Port Florence Medical Officer Polycarp Koyanda has urged residents to also practice healthy lifestyles, to avoid the burden of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and heart problems.
Speaking to our reporter at the medical facility on Thursday, the medic noted that the number of patients streaming in the facility with lifestyle diseases is on the rise.
“The number of patients with diabetes, both high and low blood and problems related to the heart has really gone high. I handle at least thirty patients with related cases every week and I have come to a conclusion that most of these diseases are as a result of poor eating habits, poor lifestyle such as too much consumption of alcohol and lack of exercises,” explained Koyanda.
He challenged the residents to take up the challenge of enrolling for fitness programmes, reduction or quitting drinking and proper and healthy eating habits.
“It’s about time all adults learnt to change on their lifestyles as these conditions are either as a result of hereditary reasons, or developed from how people carry themselves around. This is the only thing that will reduce the cases of such illnesses,” he added.