Hier is baie wittes wat graag aangaan hoe alles in SA sal goed gaan as alles maar net weer wil wit wees, kom ons kyk bietjie?
Top countries for women smokers were Greece (34.7 percent) and Bulgaria (31.5 percent).
Austria had a female smoking rate of 28.3 percent, followed by France (27.7 percent) and Belgium (26.1 percent).
A larger proportion of women in France smoked in 2012 (28 percent) than 1980 (19 percent), while the rate for men went the opposite direction, declining from 42 percent to 34 percent.
In all, France had 14 million smokers in 2012, two million more people than in 1980.
Nou ja, waar vrouens dik is en stink, hoe kan dinge ooit goed gaan???
Francois Williams
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Hier gaan ons alweer. Die man kan homself nou net nie help nie, want waar die hart van vol is loop die mond van oor, In 2004 was die posisie ten opsigte van oorgewig mense in Suid-Afrika soos volg. Wonder hoe lyk dit nou? http://www.hst.org.za/news/more-south-african-adults-now-die-obesity-poverty
More South African adults now die from obesity than from poverty Megan Power
The government will release reworked dietary guidelines for healthy eating, township walking clubs will be established and a major international obesity conference will take place in SA this month. At the same time, an urgent multi-pronged prevention and management strategy is being developed by the Department of Health in line with the global battle against the bulge. According to a Health Department study, more than half of SA's women are overweight or obese, with the figure for African women nearly 60%.
Fat intake among Africans has jumped almost 65% since 1940, when records first started being kept. Obesity-related diseases like hypertension and diabetes are spiralling. More South African adults now die from obesity than from poverty. And researchers say they have encountered another phenomenon: that people associate weight loss with HIV and AIDS.
But, says the government, breaking dangerous social and cultural perceptions around fat will be tough. According to research, many black women believe that if fat women lose weight, they are: HIV-positive not being supported properly by their husbands and, not as attractive or fertile. The director of the Department of Healths chronic diseases, disabilities and geriatrics directorate, Dr Elamin Mohamed, said the social and cultural aspects of obesity were a "big challenge" and could not be ignored. He said that the new dietary guidelines were just one aspect of a full-blown, multi-sectoral obesity prevention and management strategy being developed. The new guidelines contain simple health messages that are food-based (bread, meat and so on) and not nutrient-based (protein, carbohydrate and so on), as in the past.
Dr Thandi Puoane, a lecturer and researcher at the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, said the institution's surveys in the Eastern and Western Cape had revealed that fat was associated with being healthy, and thin with having HIV and AIDS. Puoane, with help from the Sports Science Institute, will launch the first walking club in Khayelitsha this week. If successful, more clubs will be opened in the Western Cape. Dr Krisela Steyn, head of the Medical Research Councils Chronic Diseases of Lifestyle Unit said that South African women had gone from under-nutrition to over-nutrition.
She said that they ate much more than they needed, were not physically active and many of them associated fat with wealth, health and success. Chairman of the South African Society for the Study of Obesity, Professor Tessa van der Merwe, said obesity among black women was under-diagnosed for years, while the dire consequences went unrecognised. About 60 South Africans are affected by strokes and heart attacks daily and the World Health Organisation predicts that in the next 20 years, obesity-driven diabetes across sub-Saharan Africa will double. Research also shows that undernourished children with stunted growth have an increased risk of becoming obese. The results of the Department of Health's follow-up study to the first national obesity survey conducted in 1998 will be available only next year.
(Source: The Sunday Times, 3 October 2004).
En rookgewoontes-later iets daaroor.
Francois Williams
Die man is siek, hy ly aan die 'swartsmeersiekte' ,wat in sy geval ongeneeslik is. Die smeer ander lande wat misdaad aanbetref so swart, dat jy op ou einde glo, dat jy wat misdaad aanbetref gelukkig is om in Suid-Afrika te bly. Nou dat ons weet wat die 'oorgewigposisie' plaaslik is, hoe lyk die rookgewoonte?
http://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/Stop-smoking/News/Ground-breaking-SA-smoking-study-leads-to-new-insights-20130919
SA smoking study reveals shocking details
A study on smoking has led to a new understanding about how smoking affects people dying of serious smoking-related diseases in SA. 3 Shutterstock Related Children of smokers more likely to light up Youth smoking, obesity lead to early death
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South African researchers have uncovered shocking details of how smoking kills South Africans as a result of tobacco-related diseases. Using a new research methodology, South Africa has become the first country in the world to gather data, allowing the health impact of smoking within the population, to be monitored. It has made it possible to obtain special insight into smoking effects and the risk individuals have for contracting serious smoking-related diseases, such as tuberculosis, lung cancer, stroke, throat and mouth cancer, as well as various lung and heart diseases.
A new understanding "The study has led to a new understanding about how smoking affects people dying of serious smoking-related diseases in South Africa and it could do the same elsewhere in the world," says Professor Krisela Steyn, Associate Director of the Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa (CDIA). CDIA is a collaborative research initiative seeking to develop and evaluate models for chronic disease care and the prevention of their risk factors. Dr Debbie Bradshaw of the Medical Research Council and a member of CDIA, one of the leading participants in this mortality study says, "We have known about the link between smoking and mortality for many decades, but did not know the magnitude of the problem."
She explains that, by adding a simple yes/no question regarding smoking history to routine death certification, researchers had gained access to over 480 000 death records between 1999 and 2007, revealing the impact of a lifelong smoking pattern. The study found particularly high tobacco related mortality in the coloured population, for whom smoking causes one in four of all deaths in middle-aged men and one in six of all deaths, in middle-aged women.
A significant drop According to the latest national statistics in the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (Sanhanes -1), 16.4% of South Africans were smokers in 2012. This is a significant drop from 32% in 1993, which has been largely attributed to stricter smoking legislation, advertising limitations and steeper tobacco prices.
Professor Steyn says that even though smoking has decreased in South Africa, there are still far too many smokers. Smokers also expose family members to second-hand smoke, which also carries a health risk. Resistance to warnings Of particular concern is smoking among young people. The Youth Risk Behaviour Survey found that 21% of Grade 8-11 learners smoke, with no change occurring between 2002 and 2008 – showing a resistance to warnings about smoking.
"The key message is that we need to apply smoking legislation more strictly than in the past; we need to reach young people to help them understand that although they think they will live forever, they need to know they will die if they keep on smoking," says Professor Steyn.
"Young people's idea that they are immune to risk is actually the biggest risk they are exposed to," she says. Nicotine highly addictive She quotes research that proves if someone starts smoking in their late teens, their chance of dying of a smoking-related disease by the age of 60 is 50%.
"It is imperative to stop young people from taking up smoking as most adult smokers start smoking before 18," she says. Getting people to give up smoking is significantly harder than preventing an individual from smoking in the first place, considering the highly addictive nature of nicotine in tobacco. In the recent report on the Global Burden of Disease in 2010, smoking is already the second most important risk factor for deaths worldwide, second to only hypertension.
Professor Steyn believes the new study will make a valuable contribution to global tobacco research. "The rest of the world can learn from the South African survey and on how to use this important new weapon in the war on smoking-attributed disease." Fill in our Stop Smoking Survey, and you could win R2000. Press Release, BHF
It's not just that most men and all women in Britain were still denied the vote in 1914 – unlike Germany, which already had full male suffrage – or that the British empire was allied with the brutal autocracy of tsarist Russia.Every single one of the main warring states was involved in the violent suppression of the rights of nations throughout the racist tyrannies that were their colonial empires. In the decades before 1914, about 30 million people died from famine as colonial officials enforced the export of food in British-ruled India, slaughtered resisters in their tens of thousands and set up concentration camps in South Africa.Britain was supposed to have gone to war to defend the neutrality of "plucky little Belgium" – which had itself presided over the death of 10 million Congolese from forced labour and mass murder in the previous couple of decades. German colonialists had carried out systematic genocide in what is now Namibia in the same period.As to international law, Britain's disdain for it was demonstrated when Germany had asked by what right it claimed territory in Africa a few years before. London refused to reply. The answer was obvious: brute force. This was the "liberal" global order for which, in the words of the war poet Wilfred Owen, the ruling classes "slew half the seed of Europe, one by one".In reality, it wasn't just the seed of Europe they sacrificed, but hundreds of thousands of troops from their colonies as well. And in case there were any doubt that all the main combatants were in the land-grabbing expansion game, Britain and France then divvied up the defeated German and Ottoman empires between them, from Palestine to Cameroon, without a thought for small nations' rights, laying the ground for future disasters in the process.
Ek staan elke oggend met 'n lied in my hart op. Gedurende die dag word dit van my vereis om "meer aggresief/selfgeldend" op te tree. Dan trek ek my tablet, nie Disprin nie, nader en lees van sekere mense se sotlikhede op die forum. En sowaar ek is skielik in die regte luim en spreek die persone aan wat dit nodig het. Soos ek al vir 'n ander persoon op die net laat verstaan het, met sekere persone kan jy 'n beskaafde, intelligente opbouende gesprek/debat mee voer, maar helaas nie met almal nie. Ek glo mos maar hou jou bek en laat almal wonder of jy onnosel is, of maak jou bek oop en bevestig hul vermoede.
Dankie dan Reusedrol, dat jy jou bek oopgerek het en ons almal se vermoedens HER-bevestig het...
Beste Francois,
Angus, dit is juis my punt ook!! Great minds think alike it seems...SA moet ophou om die Wewste die afgrond in te volg...en asap ook...
Skerp Angus. Jou grapjas
"The SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) recently reported that almost a third of black South African women are obese, followed by coloured, white and Indian women" ... lees en kyk die prentjies hier: http://www.theshrinksa.co.za/quality_2.html ... wie volg wie?
Cornelius, soos die wetsgeleerdes sal seg, "I rest my case" hie hie hie ek lag my gat af
Corneels, juistement...want hulle is op Westerse dieet en westerse lewensstyl...kyk maar na wit anties, dik en ongeskik en almal is op dwelms...
francois williams sê:
"kyk maar na wit anties, dik en ongeskik en almal is op dwelms."
Aitsa,ken 'n paar 'anties' as jy dit sou waag om dit vir hulle te sê, jou gaan klap dat jy jou ouma vir 'n eendvoël gaan aansien...