Diet

Health department aims to make healthier food choices easier as part of this year’s National Nutrition Week

Diabetes is different from other non-communicable diseases, this author says. It can’t be spread in a literal sense and is instead often forced upon people by factors beyond…

Many of the risk factors for mental and weight disorders are not simple to change. Knowing about the good effects of foods, which we can control, is very powerful

Linking a fad diet to notions of godliness is a path to hell for those who have a problematic relationship with food

When baby-boomers tell you how entitled and privileged you are, tell them they raised you and contributed to who you are now, writes Kiri Rupiah.

For many of us, holiday time is drinking time, but shouldn’t we be giving our booze-bods a break?

Low carb, high fat diets don’t work better than traditional balanced diets, according to a Stellenbosch University study.

Jane Goodall, who studied the apes for decades, says it is time for "mindful eating".

Pierre Dukan, who retired last year, has been struck off the register for promoting his slimming diet commercially, in breach of regulations.

Diets set you up for failure, says a new book, which claims the only way to stay slim is to wean yourself off sugar.

At the Sugar Association of South Africa conference in Franschhoek, experts have argued whether sugar addiction is similar to that of cocaine.

A farmer who claims to be 123 years old has attributed his long life to an ancient Andean diet of quinoa grains, mushrooms and coca leaves.

A TV programme is putting its health-giving properties to the test.

Discrimination against overweight people could very well be making them fatter, writes <b>Mandi Smallhorne</b>.

The popularity of supplements has grown markedly in South Africa.