Fruits Info

THIRTY-SIX-YEAR old Kenyan, Mr. Charles Korir is State Coordinator and Liaison Officer of the World Health Organization in Lagos. In this interview with Chioma Obinna, he gives insight into his personal health and also explains why every meal should be taken with fruits. Excerpts:

“I usually wake up by 5.30 AM and I never go to bed before 11:30 in the night. The first thing I do in the morning is to stretch myself as soon as I wake up. I make sure I do this for at least 10 minutes every day. It is a very good thing to stretch yourself immediately you wake up everyday. I do this virtually to keep myself fit.

Health is wealth; there is no wealthy man who is not healthy. How can you generate wealth, if you are not healthy, because health generation requires effort and you need to be healthy to power the effort and generate the wealth?

I am very sensitive about my health. Whenever I do not feel well, I make sure I seek wise counseling and medication.

I like eating local food. If I am having early dinner, I prefer local foods but if it is a late dinner I will prefer rice, fish, vegetables and fruits. Virtually every meal that I have including breakfast goes with fruits.

I eat fruits always because fruits help the digestion. Fruits are also very rich in vitamins.

My advice to busy executives is that they should get time to exercise. They can buy some gym equipment and install in the house and when you are really very busy, and you can’t go to the gym, utilize the equipment to advantage. Exercise goes a long way in making people healthy and I spend some minutes exercising every day.

I cannot say a particular day is my best moment health wise but I will tell you that every Saturday, after office hours at about 1.00 PM, I join my friends and we all go to the beach. Afterwards, by 4:30 PM I go to the gym.

Due to the nature of my work I go to the gym once a week although I would love to go more often. This has made life easy for me. I hate missing to spend my Saturdays as usual. I don’t have a sad moment because I am always a happy person since I am healthy.
The last time I was admitted in the hospital was in 1994 when I was involved in a motor accident. I like traveling, site-seeing and walking on the beach. I also read a lot.

My best artiste is Papa Ajasco. I like watching him when I am relaxing my body. I admire several people one of who is my mother. She has always taken care of me and is very particular about my health. It was she who taught me that every meal goes with a fruit and glass of milk. This is what makes us Kenyans good in long distance race.

I am fulfilled in life because I am happy with what I do. I work in public health and I am happy to work there because I deal with health. I see the actions that I take that are changing people’s lives and that is really what is fulfilling.