Come the first chill of August, I can be sure of one thing: I will pick up at least one (although probably more like two or three) colds or sore throats in the coming months. It is also a time when the body craves for hot and sizzling food and beverages, almost perpetually. You can’t help but cuddle on a sofa with a cup of coffee or hot chocolate to keep the chill away. My

Schools are still closed and the kids are at home. Educators are scrambling to come up with at-home lesson plans that should take up some of the day, but then what? You’re at home, they’re at home, and there are only so many Tik-Tok videos a young brain can consume before your kids are more dance zombies than human. Why not teach them something more useful than lip-syncing to a song: how to work on

Cold weather is tough on skin. Cold temperatures and low humidity levels result in dry air that robe moisture away from the skin. Dry indoor heat can make the problem worse and lead to cracked and even bleeding skin. Without the proper care, skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis may also flare up during these cold, dry months.   Proper skin care (from both the inside and outside), can counteract these effects and keep

Hi fam, besides washing hands, self-quarantining, sleeping, and lowering our stress – there is some consensus around what we can consume to help boost our immune system and increase our chances of staying well and perhaps even help minimize symptoms if we do become sick.  Anyhow, that’s what I’m banking on. I just thought I’d share a few ideas. Food recipes to help us support our bodies, bolster our immune system and hopefully stay healthy or help minimize the symptoms

Not all heroes wear capes. In fact, if you look close to your heart, you’ll see that they exist, possibly under your own roof! That’s right – our parents are basically real-life superheroes – and we should treat and cherish them. Not that we need any day to love and cherish our parents – if we can, we should do it whenever we can, right? But Father’s Day is just around the corner… (On Sunday

More and more people around the world are being forced to stay at home, as countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ways in which this new coronavirus has transformed how we live, work and keep ourselves entertained feel, to me, unreal. So I courted the advice of the World Food Programme (WFP)’s nutrition experts — on both fortifying ourselves and using this moment as a chance to change our diets for the better. 1.

As gyms close their doors, people are buying up dumbbells and other exercise equipment like toilet paper.   Like so many mundane experiences in a global pandemic, the way many Kenyans work out is about to change. Exercise is that rare private activity that often unfolds out in the open, on the gym floor and in studio classes and on sidewalks, where people can find community while staying comfortably anonymous. Even in these past few