Food Safety: An Essential Ingredient for Better Health
Every year on 7 June, World Food Safety Day highlights the important role that safe food plays in protecting our health and well-being. While food safety is often associated with preventing food poisoning and foodborne illnesses, it is also a critical part of building healthier communities and supporting long-term health outcomes. At Eat Better South […]
Youth Month, Freedom and the Courage to Question
Each year, Youth Month provides an opportunity to reflect on one of the most significant moments in South Africa’s history and to honour the young people whose courage helped shape the country we live in today. For many South Africans, the events of 16 June 1976 are familiar. We learn about them at school, we […]
Men’s Health Month: Are We Talking About the Right Things?
If awareness alone were enough to improve health, this should be the healthiest generation in history. Information about nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, and disease prevention has never been more accessible. Health campaigns occupy an increasingly prominent place on public health calendars, while social media provides a constant stream of advice, recommendations, and reminders about how […]
Salt: Have We Been Asking the Wrong Question?
Each year, World Salt Awareness Week returns with a message that sounds settled, almost beyond debate: reduce salt intake for better health. It is often presented as one of the clearer areas of nutrition science, where the evidence is consistent and the guidance is straightforward. But nutrition has a long history of mistaking confidence for […]
The Silent Killer: Stress May Be as Dangerous as Smoking Daily
April is observed as Stress Awareness Month, a time to pause, reflect, and confront one of the most pervasive yet often overlooked challenges of modern life, stress. While stress is a natural human response, growing evidence shows that chronic, unmanaged stress is one of the most significant threats to both physical and mental health today. […]
World Health Month: The Foods We Think Are Healthy
There is a quiet assumption that sits underneath many of our everyday food choices, and it rarely gets questioned. It is the idea that we can recognise what is healthy simply by looking at it, or by relying on how it has been positioned to us over time. Foods that feel familiar, convenient, or widely […]
World Health Month: The Metric We’re Missing
Every year, World Health Month prompts the same conversation… We talk about prevention. We talk about lifestyle. We talk about the growing burden of chronic disease and the need to intervene earlier, more effectively, and more sustainably. All important, all priorities. Yet, despite all of this, the trajectory hasn’t shifted in the way we might […]
7 April World Health Day: Stand With Science, But Don’t Stop Asking Questions
Every year on 7 April, the world marks World Health Day, a global initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to highlight major health challenges and promote action to improve public health. In 2026, the theme is “Together for health. Stand with science.” The campaign encourages governments, scientists, health workers, and the public to […]
The Real Easter Egg: Nature’s Original Multivitamin
Every Easter, eggs suddenly appear everywhere. Chocolate eggs wrapped in bright foil. Caramel eggs. Giant eggs. Mini eggs. Purple eggs. Pink eggs. Even blue eggs. Entire supermarket aisles devoted to them. Children hunt for them in gardens, and adults pretend they’re buying them “for the kids”. But hidden underneath all that seasonal sugar is a […]
Greatest Moments of My 11 Years
After 11 years with The Noakes Foundation, it’s both humbling and emotional to pause and reflect on a journey that has shaped not only my career but my purpose. What began as stepping into the unknown quickly became a mission far greater than any one individual, a shared vision to challenge the status quo and […]