The TEARS intervention strategy aims to instil good lifestyle and eating habits into school learners to address the growing crisis of lifestyle disease in South Africa.

A collaborative study involving local and international researchers has created an intervention strategy to help improve the diet and lifestyle of schoolchildren in South Africa.

Professor Peet du Toit, Professor Ronel Ferreira & Ms Gerda Gericke

August 23, 2017

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The TEARS intervention strategy aims to instil good lifestyle and eating habits into school learners to address the growing crisis of lifestyle disease in South Africa.

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Applying health research in South African schools for learners' well-being

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Fancy a cuppa? UP study finds tea to be as antioxidant-rich as fruit and veg

To tea or not to tea? Spilling the tea on antioxidants

UP scientists home in on gene that could play pivotal role in diet-induced obesity

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