The food industry often conceals the unhealthy products in its processed foods – even manipulating science to fool consumers. Now government is planning to introduce warning signs on food to help us to navigate what we are eating.
Read More » Do you know what’s in your food?The food industry often conceals the unhealthy products in its processed foods – even manipulating science to fool consumers. Now government is planning to introduce warning signs on food to help us to navigate what we are eating.
Read More » Do you know what’s in your food?Malnutrition, which includes both obesity and undernutrition, is the leading cause of poor health around the world, and the culprits for the costly obesity epidemic aren’t individual couch potatoes. Instead, governments have failed to curb ‘big food’ placing everybody’s health at stake, according to a major report.
Read More » SA’s obesity caused by big business not greedy peopleMany South Africans are returning to work this week but the December break hasn’t resulted in improvements in stress levels and overall mental health. The number of calls for help received by the South African Depression and Anxiety Group is just as high this January as the last months of 2019.
Read More » Janu-worry stress busters: The science behind some health therapiesIt is one of our fastest-growing epidemics. But managing diabetes is complicated when diagnosed late – the main problem for most South Africans. HEALTH-E NEWS’ Amy Green spends time in a surgical ward where people living with complications from the condition often have to choose between amputation and death. And once they have lost a limb, their chances of getting a prosthetic one in the public sector is virtually zero.
Read More » Diabetes: Your leg or your lifeAs South Africa marks World Diabetes Day this Wednesday, recent data from the International Diabetes Federation estimates that 3.85-million South Africans have diabetes, with a large portion of them undiagnosed.This equates to an estimated 7% of adults aged between 21 and 79.
Read More » Reduce your diabetes riskTen South Africans suffer a stroke every hour. Yet many blame the affliction on witchcraft and isolate stroke survivors – who are already battling because of the dire shortage of rehabilitation facilities.
Read More » Stroke of depression in South AfricaThe tax on sugary drinks tax has already generated almost R800-million since it was introduced on 1 April, according to Treasury.
Read More » Sugary drinks tax nets almost R800-millionThe sugary drinks tax has already generated almost R800-million, and there is a growing call for even higher “sin taxes” to help reverse the VAT increase. HEALTH-E NEWS’ Amy Green reports.
Read More » Can higher ‘sin taxes’ help the economy?Watch this demonstration to find out how much sugar you are consuming unknowingly when drinking your favourite sugary drink.
Read More » How much sugar is in your drink?The World Health Organisation (WHO) Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs' new report, Time to Deliver, called for urgent action against chronic diseases and mental disorders, the globe's leading cause of death and ill-health, but failed to include a recommendation on taxing sugary beverages.
Read More » WHO Commission criticised over sugar taxes in new reportThere has been a lot of controversy surrounding the sugar tax which was officially implemented on April 1. The tax, equivalent to a levy of about 11 percent on can of coke, is aimed at tackling South Africa’s obesity epidemic and the diseases associated with it. Health-e News busted five common myths.
Read More » Myth-busting the new sugar taxSouth Africa is less than two weeks away from implementing the hard-won tax on sugary drinks. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said now that "we've got a foot in the door" he will strengthen the government's fight against the negative health impacts of sugar by pushing for a higher tax.
Read More » Sugar tax: The fight against sugar is just beginningThe National Council of Provinces (NCOP) today passed the tax on sugary drinks, which is part of the Rates and Monetary Amounts and Revenue Law Amendment Bill.
Read More » Parliament finally passes sugary drinks taxThe Healthy Living Alliance (Heala) took to the Rosebank streets on Tuesday, using World Diabetes Day as a significant time to protest against sugary drinks outside Coca-Cola’s new local headquarters.
Read More » Citizens take to the streets on World Diabetes Day