CD – Cecile van Niekerk

FOOD PRESERVATIVES, ARE THEY HARMFUL? Are food preservatives harmful? This is a question that is often asked. The answer to this question is complex as food preservatives are diverse. There is a belief that food preservatives can cause harm to health by eliciting an allergic response in hypersensitive individuals or increase the risk of developing […]

Let us talk about stooling patterns in children. This topic is often taboo in society, but a healthy stooling pattern especially in children plays a very important role in maintaining overall good health. Morale of the story; we should be asking our children more about their stooling pattern. “Constipation” is a familiar term for many

Anne Fishel posted an article on preliminary research conducted by “The Family Dinner Project” in collaboration with “Making Caring Common” on “How Covid changed dinner”. Their research included 696 American adults including 444 parents with children living at home, and suggests that family dinners increased for more than 50% of American families during the pandemic,

Constipation occurs when stools become hardened and difficult to pass. As with adults, the frequency of children’s bowel movements varies from child to child. There are many “normal” patterns for bowel movements in children. Sometimes children’s faces turn red and they appear to strain to pass a stool, but if the stool is soft and

For most of us, weekends are structured around a braai with friends and family; week days are long and exhausting and nights are short with interrupted sleep. Someone once said, “Act yourself in a new way of thinking”. In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, research has shown that centuries ago the diet composition of