The language and concepts used to describe the physical body are inherently shaped by cultural forces. It is difficult to say whether the audience of some three hundred listeners sitting before ...

In a Cape Town township, Nasreen Riley cooks up butter-fried chicken livers in a full-cream tomato sauce as part of the controversial "Banting" diet, mostly eaten in wealthier suburbs. The Banting ...

For as long as people have been watching their figure, diet gurus have been there to tell us how best to shed pounds and keep in shape. According to legend, William the Conqueror went on a liquid diet ...

According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) fact sheet on diabetes, the number of people with it has increased from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. In fact, the WHO projects that in ...