When I was 18, I made a decision to avoid scales as much as possible. I wasn’t fat. Quite the opposite. But paying close attention to the tiny shifts in my weight from one day to the next was making me unhappy. I also hated feeling hungry all the time, which was what was required to … Read more
Over the last few years, with improved treatments and in the face of extensive government intervention, South Africans have lost their sense of urgency over the HIV/Aids pandemic. However, as Adcock senior executive Stavros Nicolaou points out, the battle against HIV/Aids is far from won. Although some 2.2m South Africans are receiving treatment for Aids, … Read more
We’d better stop joking about fat Americans. The latest global survey shows South Africans are climbing the “fat nation” league and we’re now in third place behind the US and UK. Hidden costs of obesity are similar to cigarette smoking – mushrooming public healthcare costs. That’s not to be sneezed at in a country determined … Read more
We talk so much on this blog about money and wealth that we can sometimes forget that there’s more to life, like friends, family, and health. In this blog, dietician and speaker Celynn Erasmus reminds us of what really matters when she talks frankly about how to keep your heart healthy. Often, we think that … Read more
When my enforced “gardening leave” started last October, I took the advice of an old friend who’d been there, done that. Entrepreneur Jannie Mouton, who started again at 50 and has built a fabulous lifestyle and an amazing business in the last 15 years, shares in his book that after he was fired he spent … Read more