The food industry often conceals the unhealthy products in its processed foods – even manipulating science to fool consumers. Now government is planning to introduce warning signs on food to help us to navigate what we are eating.
The food industry often conceals the unhealthy products in its processed foods – even manipulating science to fool consumers. Now government is planning to introduce warning signs on food to help us to navigate what we are eating.
Packaged food that is high in salt, sugar and fat may soon have to carry warning labels, according to a top health official.
Packaged food that is high in salt, sugar and fat may soon have to carry warning labels, according to a top health official.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced a marginal increase in the tax on sugary drinks during his Budget speech, mainly to “avoid an erosion in the value of the tax due to inflation”.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has announced a marginal increase in the tax on sugary drinks during his Budget speech, mainly to “avoid an erosion in the value of the tax due to inflation”.
What has obesity got to do with climate change? Quite a lot, according to an influential commission, which says the big food companies that make the junk food fuelling our expanding bodies are also destroying our environment– and need to be stopped.
The Board of Health-e News Service is delighted to announce the appointment of Sibongile Nkosi as Chief Executive Officer of Health-e effective from 1 March 2019.
For the past eight months, the national Department of Health has been unable address poor conditions at its head office, Civitas, in part because of a breakdown in relations between the Minister and the Director General.
Former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu and former Chief Whip Brian Hlongwa have been ordered to step down from Gauteng ANC Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) by the ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC).
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) turns 20 today - International Human Rights Day - and our history would be much poorer without them.
Cabinet will convene a special meeting in January to discuss the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, according to government sources.
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