Ugandan nutritionist Dr. Paul Kasenene advised his followers to lower their rate of chapati consumption, saying that over consumption of chapati is ‘definitely not healthy’.
Dr. Paul Kasenene says chapati is made of refined wheat, refined salt and refined oil. Besides, he says refined wheat may tend to cause more harm than sugar could ever do.
“I know many of may not want to hear this but chapati is made of refined wheat, refined oil and refined salt. It maybe tasty and convenient but it does more harm than good,” Dr Paul Kasenene tweeted.
Dr Kasenene’s advice caused an uproar among students who lost their cool as they reacted to his tweet.
“Nange simutegela. Eno e Kikoni tetuli happy” (translated as I have also not understood him. We are not happy here in Kikoni). A one Bill Joseph reacted.
Makerere University law don Dr Busingye Kabumba also seemed to be moved by Dr Kasenene’s advice as he reacted ‘tokisusa nyo mani’ -telling Dr Kasenene not to go the extreme.
One tweep said if chapatis were harmful, societies that have it for a staple food would be extinct by now.
And speaking of staple food, chapati, if not yet one, should be a staple food for university students.
University students are fond of eating a plenty of chapatis, Kikomando (mixture of chapati and beans) and a delicacy of rolex -usually a preserve for the slay queens that don’t want to be seen buying ‘kikomando’.
The uproar among university students following Dr Paul Kasenene’s advice to Ugandans to reduce chapati consumption is therefore understandable.
