Mia Malan speaks to public health researcher Susan Goldstein about what policymakers can do to help make South Africans healthier
]. Ultra-processed foods have created a massive obesity problem in South Africa.
What we need is a food system where people farm and sell their produce locally, and that produce will be healthierThe first way is to stop advertising these foods, especially to children. Children are advertised these foods all the time, not only on television and radio but also through things like [sponsored youth sport development], for example, or having cartoon characters on cereal, which has a lot of sugar. Banningis a start.
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