With a number of issues facing South Africans, from unemployment to high cost of living, one problem that unfortunately affects far too many is hunger and inadequate access to nutritious food.
For so many South Africans, the only food they have access to is poor quality, processed and high in sugar and salt, which is not good for physical and neurological development, according to Pillay. What you will then have is poor quality nutrition, which translates into things like stunting, poor cognitive abilities… and then of course, what we know now is that obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, including some of the cancers, have their roots in poor nutrition in childhood.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
I literally found myself with BP and is so high…