Rwanda’s food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
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South Africa’s massive and growing obesity epidemic has much to do with people’s excessive daily sugar intake.
It’s time for Australia to follow the UK’s lead and increase the price of sugary drinks.
All eyes have been on Mexico since they imposed a tax on sugary drinks – and now the data is in.
With one can of cool drink containing six teaspoons of sugar – your recommended sugar intake for the day – there is a need to reduce the number of sugar-sweetened beverages South Africans consume.
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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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Senior Researcher, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, PRICELESS SA, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research associate, Imperial College London
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
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Professor, Deakin University
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Executive Manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition; Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Coordinator of Postgraduate Programmes, School of Economics, University of Rwanda
