Obesity on the Rise Among Rwandans - New Study NewTimesRwanda: Rwanda health obesity
Dubbed"STEPS," the study was done in the form of a household survey that gathered information on Non-Communicable Diseases risk factors through a face-to-face interview, physical measurements, and biochemical analysis.
Smoking, alcoholism, overweight, physical inactivity, eating behaviour are some of the indicators that it focused on. Dr Francois Uwinkindi, the Manager of the Non-Communicable Diseases Division at RBC, said obesity is a risk factor for diabetes, hypertension and heart diseases. He noted that the numbers of obese people are not yet alarming but they are"increasing."
In 2013, it was estimated that 21.4 percent of people in Rwanda were not doing enough physical activity, however, the numbers fell to 4.6 percent in 2022.
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