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Drinking just one sugar-sweetened beverage (for example sodas or fruit juice with artificially added sugar) a day raises the chances of a child being overweight by more than half. (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)
100 FRUIT JUICE

Why 100% fruit juice should come with a sugar warning label

Under SA’s latest proposed food labelling regulations, 100% fruit juices won’t have to show a high sugar warning because their sugars are “naturally occurring”

  • Zano Kunene
8 min read
More than a quarter of South African children under the age of five are chronically malnourished. That’s bad for them, their families and the economy. (Envato)
BREASTFEEDING

Childhood stunting is also stunting South Africa’s economy

More than a quarter of children under the age of five in the country are chronically malnourished

  • David Harrison
8 min read