Young people are now falling prey to lifestyle diseases that in the past were thought to affect the elderly.
Medical experts have raised concerns at the rate at which people in the informal settlements are being burdened with diseases that can be averted by lifestyle audit.
Anderson Kitili, a medical consultant and chemist owner at Olympic Shopping Centre in Kibera is concerned on the high number of patients flocking his shop requesting to buy prescribed medicine. Kitili said that if the trend continues, then the present generation shall be wiped off by the emerging health hazards.
In his observation, the medic says that underage children are turning obese and one can never differentiate an adult from a teenager. According to him, the contributing factors are lack of exercises, over-consumption of fast foods and use of alcohol and other illicit drugs. He further advised people to greatly reduce their consumption of the roadside chips which the youth are extremely addicted to.
To the adults and drug addicts, he encouraged them to shun smoking and heavy drinking noting that it does more harm than good to their lives.
Informal settlements had been hardly hit by lifestyle diseases due to the fact that they cannot afford decent meals and also adequate recreational services that are considered good for a healthy being.