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South Africa: North West Health On World Salt Awareness Week
[Govt of SA] The North West Department of Health urge communities to take actions during the World Salt Awareness Week which is marked on 14 - 20 March. The awareness is to educate members of the public that salt can damage their health and it is linked to serious health conditions such as stroke and heart failure. There is also increasing evidence supporting links between our current high salt diets and the onset of stomach cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and kidney stones and kidney disease.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 15, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Economic growth as an underlying probable systemic driver for childhood obesity in South Africa: A Joinpoint regression and ecological analysis over 10 years
CONCLUSIONS: An increase in childhood and adolescent obesity over time was observed, while trend associations between obesity and EGIs exist.PMID:33944743 | DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i3.14669
Source: South African Medical Journal - May 4, 2021 Category: African Health Authors: P T Pisa N M Pisa P Chikandiwa A Chikandiwa Source Type: research
