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South Africa has the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world, with an alarming figure of 13%, while the global average stands at 6%. One of the main causes is the rapid growth of the country’s commercial food industry, and an increased consumption of cheap, easily accessible and ultra-processed food high in sugar.
If you do, you fly in the face of mounting and incontrovertible evidence that some calories - in particular, "sugar calories" - are jeopardising both your and your family's health. Physicians and politicians who cling to the dogma that "all calories should...
Breakfast cereals designed for kids have endured tomes of bad press, targeted by the food police as "sugar-salt laden food deserts/desserts" and who'd have us believe they have less nourishment than the box they're packaged in. This reputation is entirely undeserved, counters a leading American...
Childhood obesity is a real problem and, no pun intended, growing worse all the time. However, who really is at fault? Nutritionists and public health advocates want to blame fast food, sugared soft drinks, and junk food. Some cities have even gone so far as...
The past few years have seen the launch of many admirable initiatives to solve the problem of childhood obesity in America, but I'd like to respectfully suggest that these programs are, quite simply, doomed to failure. This is not because the food...