A new study suggests that adding salt to your food at the table is linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. But caution is needed.
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Indonesia has the world’s second-highest rates of TB – but lack of funding means not enough people are being diagnosed and treated fast enough.
Nine in ten of all deaths in New Zealand are caused by non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. Better use of research evidence could save lives and healthcare dollars.
The interplay of poverty, inequality, urbanisation and the industrial food system leaves low-income families with limited access to fresh, healthy foods.
There’s a lack of locally relevant knowledge to prevent and control non-communicable diseases in African countries.
Fast-food outlets outnumber healthy food stores in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
This is a critical time for our planet. What we eat and how we get our food will shape its future.
Africa is expected to have among the steepest increases in the number of people affected by non-communicable diseases - it needs health care systems that can cope.
Being able to buy processed “food-like” products is often seen as a mark of personal and material success. Little attention is paid to having a healthy diet.
If South African consumers were educated on how to read and understand the information on food labels, they may be more willing and capable of making healthier food choices.
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Clinical Endocrinologist & Associate Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellow & Senior Research Officer, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor Sustainable Food Systems, Director of Rural Research Centre, Dalhousie University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town
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Director of the Non-Communicable Diseases Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council, Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Medicine and Director, Healthier Lives–He Oranga Hauora National Science Challenge and Co-Director, Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, University of Otago
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Program Manager, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
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Children, Social Welfare, and Health Research Officer, Resilience Development Initiative (RDI)
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Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
