A British film-maker and an Ethiopian doctor are producing a film that teaches Ethiopians to eat less so that they can avoid becoming obese, the report below explains. What the report fails to mention is that these fat Ethiopians are very few and belong to the ruling class, and they are commonly known as Woyannes. And the stupid doctor, Dawit Mengistu, who is involved in making the film, is best described as aggasses. The report is full of factual errors written by a lazy reporter named Dave Himelfield. Click here to see some photos of Woyanne kids for a glimps into their obscene lifestyle. The photo below is Meles Zenawi’s daughter and Sebhat Nega’s son partying and getting drunk.
HUDDERSFIED, UK (The Huddersfield Daily) — TWO Huddersfield men are out to save the lives of Ethiopians – from gorging, drinking and smoking themselves to death.
In a total U-turn from the haunting images of the 1984 famine which sparked Live Aid, parts of Ethiopia are now becoming affluent and some of its wealthier people are falling victim to Western-style excesses – including obesity.
Film-maker John Edmonds and public health expert Dr Dawit Mengistu – who was born in Ethiopia – have realised there is a growing health problem in the African country due to growing wealth and fast food restaurants opening.
Now the Examiner can exclusively reveal their move to tackle a problem no-one could have dreamed would ever exist in Ethiopia.
Old images of starving Ethiopian children – which prompted the 1985 Live Aid appeal spearheaded by pop star Bob Geldof – still haunt many people’s perception of that country.
But 24 years later Ethiopia has a growing affluent population which is gorging on western-style fast food, smoking and drinking.
‘White-collar’ sit down jobs are on the increase in urban areas – as is car ownership.
Mr Edmonds said: “Urban areas in Ethiopia teeter on the edge of yet another new crisis – diseases of affluence. Sadly, the western diet and lifestyle are becoming more and more popular with everyone who can afford them.
“Cars are in demand, western-style high-fat fast food outlets are multiplying, the use of tobacco and alcohol is increasing and, with all these changes, so is the incidence of diseases.”
“The average Ethiopian knows little of the dangers of fast food, lack of exercise, high-fat food and the like and the amount of public information on these issues in the Ethiopian language is rare.
“As the result, low-income countries such as Ethiopia are seeing shocking increase in obesity, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
17 thoughts on “New DVD teaches Woyannes to eat less”
SEMHAL MELES ZENAWI LOOKS OBESE ON THE PICTURE ABOVE . LOOKS CAN SURELY BE DECIEVING , BECAUSE ACCORDING TO INSIDE KNOWERS SHE IS VERY ATHLETIC AND EQUIPED WITH MILITARY PHYSICAL TRAININGS . ANOTHER THING IS SHE IS NOT KNOWN FOR HAVEING A SMILEY FACE LIKE THE ONE IN THE PICTURE.
eli gedelkegene kkkkkkkkkk @agases… yet abatu…demo ethiopiawi hono sele obesity yasebal sentu terebo…be dekobesity eyeleke…
Dear Friends,
Our “Health by Choice” DVD is designed to raise awareness among Ethiopians back at home and in Diaspora about the so-called “western diseases” or “diseases of affluence” such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, hypertension etc. These diseases are now becoming the main cause of death around the globe. We also try to show the power lifestyle modification (such as healthy nutrition, mainating a healthy weight etc.) and very simple natural remedies have to prevent and in some cases reverse such conditions. Please watch the 4-minute preview on youtube. We hope and believe that our DVD in Amharic will help all Ethiopians who live with the risk factors for developing the above mentioned diseases or who have the diseases already.
I Hope all will understand my intention to help my people by sharing my expertise in lifestyle and preventive medicine. Thanks
Dr. Dawit Mengistu
this agasses needs to get a life.
sira yata agasses, at a time when millions of Ethiopians are starving
here comes a brilliant research on the top few fat woyane kids who are living the life. how angering is this! how embarrassing for these losers to even contemplate such a study! shame on them!
Thank you for sharing. This is not an Ethiopian problem. Millions of Ethiopian are crying for food Aid. Let Dr. Mengisti live in his Ivory tower misinforming the world about Ethiopia to just make money.
There will always be Agasessochi in any society!!!!!!!!
oofey..you made my evening elias! I can’t even control my laughter, while I am scribing this. ”Agasses” hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha….any ways the so called film doesn’t represent our people and I think the Dr is either out of touch.
Jupi
I wish this doctor spent his time to study how to survive in times where food is scarce, how to stay healthy without balanced diet. This is the real problem ravaged Ethiopia, not obesity.
I agree with Eliase Kifla:
Dawit Mengistu is stupid. He has no idea what has talking about. How many percent of Ethiopians are fat? Except the ruling party, Tigray People Liberation Front and its suporters of about less 5 percent of population the rest of the people live hardly get one meal a day. If Dawit and co. advicing a fat TPLF and its dogs, that is an excellent work.
this DR was hopeless he was in germany for along time jobless he went to england to make money by selling DVD o my god he is the real aggasses
A public health doctor who is ignorant about the public health problem of the country! Sure he leaves in UK, where obesity is the main issue, but that is our low and distant priority. Even if few individuals might be obese, we should not waste our meagre resources to address the need of few gluttonous obese people, which are mostly the ruling Tigre elites. Thus the video is irrelevant to our situation. Ethiopian people, the majority of whom are children, have been suffering from chronic malnutrition for decades and that has intensified in recent years under the brutal Tigre-regime of Meles. As a medical student and later on as a practicing physician I have seen thousands of children suffering from kwashiorkor and marasmus, but never consider obesity as a problem of Ethiopians. Dr Dawit should have used his public health knowledge to consider the main public health problems facing the country, namely under nutrition, infections (TB, HIV, intestinal parasites etc…) poor sanitation and the likes. Priority setting, choice of programme, efficient use of meagre resources, and proper allocation of limited resources to priority health problems is the core component of public health training I presume!
the majority of ethiopians are already on a forced “diet”. they can not afford to eat more than once a day if they can afford to do that. unless the video is designed to teach woyane how to eat , or to spread the harsh lies of woyane propaganda about having few hungry people than what is acutally known, then i do not see what the purpose of this video is. it is shame and cruel to make fun of hungry people. this reminds of the princess who asked why the people do not eat cake if they do not like bread.
Dear Dr. Dawit Mengistu,
I would have liked to appreciate your intention to contribute for public awareness on global health problems that are associated with unhealthy food and wealth had i believed that your intention was a genuine one. How on earth would an Ethiopian born health professional miss the facts and attribute what is not of a concern to Ethiopians at home a health problem? Learn the facts first before you produce something and claim that you have positive intention. The actual figures from all independent sources and personal observations indicate with no any uncertainty that far more millions are starving and poverty increasing in all parts of the coutnry..and yet you claim that following increase in wealth Ethiopians are becoming obesse. This is a mockery on the starving people.
Come to your sense dear Dawit Mengistu.
Dear Dr. Dawit Mengistu, I honestly appreciate your motive.however, at the moment millions of Ethiopians go to bed with out food in their mouth. this is an undeniable reality in the current Ethiopia, due to lack of good governance, nepotism rampant corruption and tyranny. if you made a film that reflect the life style of over 85 percent of our people, not minute group in the adminstration, that would have been fair.by the way most obessed ethiopians( in the leadership) have their own personal physicians regularly check on them and they don’t really need your 4 minute clip.
mesfin
Agasses indeed.lol
talk about priority! this is rediculous! really!
most of loterry winners dies or sick because of low experiance about money.woyanes have the same problem to learn how to leave healthy and under law after long term poverity.
Is this for real.
The problem with Woyane’s obesity is they sit around on their behind too much. Too much kchat during the day and too much whisky at night.Everyday is a holiday no activity no walking. Most of them are begining to look like ugly monsters. Even the help of plastic surgery and dark hair color is not hideing their true ugliness.