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• Eat from the rainbow bowl – a variety of
foods that are different colours.
• Avoid processed food that has lost nutrients
from being too refined; or has additives such
as colouring, preservatives, flavouring, extra
sugar and salt. These additives weaken your
gut microbes and your immune system.

• Use clean water to wash and prepare all your
food. Fresh food is best, so grow it yourself if
you can. If you buy your food, try to know the
source of it.
NELIMA • Don’t cook food for too long and avoid using
too much salt and too much oil.

• Avoid sugar! Sweetened products such as
sodas have far too much sugar for our
bodies, and many processed foods contain SARAH
a lot of sugar. Processed or added sugar
has no nutritional benefit, and can cause
health problems such as obesity, diabetes
and many other chronic diseases. You can
get all your energy needs from the natural
sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.

• If you follow these guidelines, you will
make your body much stronger. Martha
summarised it well for us. Martha?
JAMES SEKURU

• Eat a wide variety of fresh,
local foods, produced
naturally. Emphasise traditional
foods and dishes, as Mbuya
says. Then you’ll be taking the
best medicine to fight against a DR HARRIET
serious infection of COVID-19! KARIBU

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