nutrition

Retired teacher helps her community to eat better

Our Health

As more and more people turn to community gardening; an elderly former teacher has already been doing it for the past eight years to encourage people to eat healthier food.

Bontle Motsoeneng
September 10, 2019

Khayelitsha’s guerrilla gardening changing its food culture

Our Health

A collective is radically reclaiming its township from pervasive fast food outlets by encouraging youth to grow their own food.

Imameleng Masitha
August 15, 2019

From farm to plate: Food safety is everyone’s business

News

The United Nations has declared 7 June the first World Food Safety Day to strengthen efforts to ensure what we eat is safe.

Thabo Molelekwa
June 7, 2019

HEALA: Act against Big Food tactics that target kids

Health

As the South African commemorates Child Protection Week activists call for policy framework that protects children from harmful marketing by Big Food industry.

Lawrence
June 5, 2019

Community heroes help stamp out stunting

Our Health

Community Health Workers trained to help stamp out stunting in rural areas in a campaign that seeks to galvanise South Africa towards achieving zero stunting by 2030.

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
June 4, 2019

Doctor’s secrets to a healthy and long life

Our Health

This rural doctor is used to writing scripts for medication, but he has now written a manuscript.

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
May 21, 2019

Small changes in diet make a big difference

News

A lot of South African adults are so physically inactive that they are at risk of getting sick as a result of not exercising.

Asavela Dalana
February 15, 2019

Small changes in diet make a big difference

News

A lot of South African adults are so physically inactive that they are at risk of getting sick as a result of not exercising.

Asavela Dalana
February 15, 2019

Food safety a threat to global health and economies

News

With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies all over the world.

jamesthabo
February 12, 2019

Food safety a threat to global health and economies

News

With an estimated 600 million cases of foodborne illnesses annually, unsafe food is a threat to human health and economies all over the world.

Thabo Molelekwa
February 12, 2019

Feeding the inner city through Fifi’s Farmacy

Health

WATCH: Refiloe Molefe has been feeding inner-city children for the last 12 years from the produce she grows on her urban farm.

jamesthabo
January 11, 2019

Plates over Pills

Health

WATCH: meet the doctor using her garden as her prescription pad.

kimharrisberg
December 3, 2018

Grow Great Campaign aims to stop stunting

News

One in five South African children under the age of five suffer from stunting.This is according to the recent South African Demographic and Health Survey that found that stunted children suffer delayed growth and their brains don’t develop as they should.

jamesthabo
November 8, 2018

Local 108-year-old swears by traditional food

Our Health

Modern food is not friendly to black people who are now facing a great health threat because they have moved away from more traditional nutrition, according to Flagstaff's 'oldest' resident.

Zizo Zikali
November 7, 2018

Healthy lunch boxes part of fight against obesity

News

The number of South African children who are overweight or obesity is on the increase. Professor Salome Kruger of the Nutrition Centre of Excellence at the University of North West believes work needs to be done to combat this problem in school-going children.

jamesthabo
October 18, 2018

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