Eating healthy: Regional government in central Kenya assimilates organic food in schools feeding programme

Eating healthy: Regional government in central Kenya assimilates organic food in schools feeding programme

KOAN CEO Eustace Kiarie Said KOAN’s Kilimohai mark through a Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) is designed to certify agro-ecological produce in a way that is accessible to smallholder farmers. Mr Kiarie said that the organization aims to organise at least 800 farmers into 40 groups, connecting them to schools, local markets, and other off-takers.

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Study: Coffee keeps urine system and heart healthy, slows liver disease’s progress to fibrosis, cirrhosis

Study: Coffee keeps urine system and heart healthy, slows liver disease’s progress to fibrosis, cirrhosis

For the first four areas, the authors pinpointed specific molecules that had been shown to be positively influenced by coffee in the existing data. In the fifth, they identified a variety of gut microbiome-balancing bacteria that coffee helps promote.

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