This chapter introduces the topic of the study, giving relevant background and highlighting the problem statement. It ends with the study's hypothesis, aim, specific objectives, significance, and conceptual framework. M ...

Context: A survey made worldwide (including South Africa) revealed that most teenagers are overweight and obese and that they eat little nutritious food. Obesity and overweight are public health problems and need to be ...

Background: The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) aims to foster better quality education by enhancing children’s learning capacity, encouraging regular attendance and punctuality, addressing micronutrient ...

Introduction: Nutrition education is the change process whereby beliefs, attitudes, environmental influences, and understanding about food lead to nutrition practices that are scientifically sound, practical, and consistent ...

Hypertension remains a major public health problem that needs different comprehensive health strategies to deal with it. Indigenous vegetables, Blackjack in particular, have been shown to possess anti-hypertensive properties ...

Introduction: Globally, it is estimated that only 44% of infants are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life while most children are introduced to solid, semi-solid or soft foods late or earlier than recommended. ...

Introduction: Globally obesity amongst adolescents is becoming one of the most challenging public health concerns. Prevalence of obesity among children and adolescent has dramatically increased in recent years in both ...

Introduction: In the year 2012, South Africa had a prevalence rate of stunting in children aged 1- 3, 4 - 6 and 7 – 9 years at 26.5%, 11.9% and 9.4%, respectively (Shisana et al. (2013). The Greater Sekhukhune District ...