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Community insights into, and an international perspective on the role food environments and diet play in the self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in urban and rural South Africa
(The University of the Western Cpae, 2018)
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and pre-diabetes contribute increasingly to the global
burden of disease. Along with other behavioural risk factors, diet plays a key role in the
onset and management of the disease, in ...
Dietary intake practices associated with diabetes and obesity among black South Africans in the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological study
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
South Africa is undergoing epidemiological transition characterised by large shifts in dietary patterns. Modern societies seem to have adopted a ―Western diet‖ which is high in saturated fats, sugar, salt, refined foods ...