With food and petrol prices rocketing, impoverished people sacrifice nutritious food for starches that keep them full, leaving children malnourished and adults prone to disease.
Image:The rising cost of living is forcing many South Africans to cut out healthy food to make ends meet. Petrol price increases, rocketing food prices and a looming electricity tariff increase have added to the strain in a country with record unemployment.
“People are eating starch because it fills them. It seems like a good meal but it is missing nutritional aspects. They prioritise what we have in our baskets as core foods but they can barely afford the core foods so they buy rice or mielie meal but not both, potatoes, onions, cooking oil and stock cubes or soup to give the food flavour. If money is left they buy nutritious food such as tinned pilchards and fresh vegetables. People have dropped nutritious food because of affordability.
According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, life choices and habits such as eating healthy food can prevent an estimated 70% to 80% of heart disease and stroke.
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