It’s time to halt the widely held mistaken belief that red meat is dangerous. The recently published Red Meat in Nutrition and Health could generate some life-saving marketing messages for the local red meat industry.
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or have a family history of the condition, you may be dreading the dietary changes that are imminent. The good news is that you don’t need to overhaul the way you eat. But, there are some minor tweaks you need to make to enhance your diet.
New research points squarely at soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic.
A decades-long study, involving more than 33 000 Americans, has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages interact with genes that affect weight, increasing the risk of obesity, beyond that caused by heredity. Conversely, two other major experiments found that giving children and teens calorie-free alternatives leads to less weight gain.
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The combined processes of rapid urbanisation, concentration of ownership of food production and distribution, and globalisation of food trade have resulted in rapid changes in the South African food environment. This article has focused on Big Food and attempted to bring together what is known about large food corporations in South Africa in the context of concerns about unhealthy eating and associated ill health. Although it provides an incomplete picture, it yields the following observations about Big Food in South Africa:
At the beginning of this year, Denmark’s government was all for it. Heck, it had already introduced a tax on saturated fat in products. But within a few months, the situation has completely turned around and it looks like the idea is dead in the water.
Proposals to scrap the existing fat tax, and aims to introduce a similar tax on sugary food and drink, are now written into Denmark’s draft budget. Consensus of opinion is that the government will ratify them.
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