WORLD MENOPAUSE DAY: Menopause Hurts More Than We Talk About
Hot flushes have an excellent publicist. Joint pain tends to sneak in quietly. One morning, a shoulder objects to getting dressed. Then the knees start having opinions about stairs. Before long, getting out of bed involves a few more sound effects than it used to. It is tempting to file all of this under getting […]
Reclaiming Metabolic Health Through Everyday Choices
“Eat better.” It sounds simple… until you’re feeding a family on a tight budget and wondering what will keep everyone full until tomorrow. National Nutrition Week, observed from 9-15 October, is an opportunity to ask how we can make nourishing food a realistic part of daily life. Across South Africa, obesity, diabetes, and childhood stunting […]
Broken Food Systems Break Health Too
A supermarket aisle can look abundant. Shelves stacked high, colours shouting for attention, promotions promising more for less. Yet behind the display is a quieter truth: people still go hungry while enormous quantities of food are wasted. UNEP estimates that households worldwide wasted more than one billion meals a day in 2022 (1). Full shelves […]
Stroke Is Sudden. The Risk Often Isn’t.
A stroke can interrupt an ordinary afternoon without warning. Someone is talking across the table, reaching for a cup, finishing a story, and then their face changes, their arm weakens, or the words no longer come out as they should. The urgency is real, which is why World Stroke Day, marked on 29 October, asks […]
Vegetarian and Low Carb Can Share a Plate
Low-carbohydrate eating is often pictured as a plate of bacon and eggs, with a steak waiting in the wings, so it is understandable that someone who is vegetarian might wonder where they fit into the conversation. Yet reducing carbohydrates does not require eating meat, and being vegetarian does not mean that bread, rice and pasta […]
The Brain is not Separate from the Body
Metabolic health, nutrition and mental health 10 September was World Suicide Prevention Day. The World Health Organization estimates that 727,000 people died by suicide in 2021. Suicide was the third leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds, and 73% of deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries [1]. These deaths cannot be explained by […]
Not all Weight Loss Is Created Equal.
For years, we have been told that weight loss is mostly a numbers game: eat fewer calories, lose weight, and your health will improve. The particular route you take is often treated as a matter of personal preference, rather like choosing between Google Maps and Waze. A new randomised clinical trial suggests the route may […]
Welcoming Our Newest Ambassador: Meet Joomee Kyler
At The Noakes Foundation, we are delighted to welcome Joomee Kyler as our newest Foundation Ambassador. Joomee’s journey is one of resilience, curiosity, and hope. As a diagnostic cytologist with over 20 years of experience, she has dedicated her career to helping detect cancer and disease through laboratory science. Yet it was her own health […]
Nutrition Literacy Is the New Media Literacy
Most parents worry about what their children are seeing on social media. Far fewer spend the same amount of time thinking about what their children are seeing in supermarket aisles, convenience stores, school tuck shops, and online food advertising. Have you ever stopped to think that this kind of messaging may be just as influential? […]
World Kidney Day: Your Body’s Filters Under Pressure
Every day, your kidneys filter almost 180 litres of blood (the same amount of fluid that fills an average bathtub), quietly removing waste, balancing fluids and electrolytes, regulating blood pressure, and even helping produce red blood cells. Most of the time, you never notice them working. They simply do their job in the background. But […]