The 9th Parliament, after 3 years of debate enacted the Nutritionists and Dieticians law in october 2007. The bill has been authored and sponsored by Hon. Julia Ojiambo – then a NARC nominated Member of Parliament on Parliamentary approval – the act was assented into law by the former President o… read moref the Republic of Kenya, His Excellency Hon. Mwai Kibaki on the 22nd October 2007, thus making Kenya the first country in the region of Africa to enact such an important law in the field of Nutrition & Dietetics. Subsequently, the then Minister for Medical Services – Hon. Prof. Anyang Nyong’o – gazetted the act on 30th October 2008.  KNDI is the only such legal-framework in the Africa Region, designed to comprehensively and inclusively handle issues related to food, nutrition and dietetics for the improvement of the well-being of humanity. KNDI endeavors to use all the existing indigenous sciences and new sciences & technologies to delve into the knowledge of food, nutrition and dietetics to tackle the effects of food, nutrition and dietetics on the well-being of humanity in the midst of changing socioeconomic, climate, urbanization, migration, attitudes, domestic violence among other factors, in order to create powerful ideas towards improving people’s health.