Thursday 26 March

Anna and Norah ventured off to meet with an extension officer at the Human Nutrition, Food and Exercise Department who is doing work in nutrition education with lower income groups.

They found it enlightening as they realized that nutritional problems faced in the USA are essentially the same as those that South Africa is experiencing. People do not know how to make healthy choices and often healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food. The strategy for intervention which they follow is to make small changes over the long term. This is a strategy that could potentially work well in our South African context.

While the girls were hard at work the boys took the opportunity to go shopping and eat some more Ben & Jerry's. Poor PJ missed out as he had to pay a visit to the doctor. No need to fear though, he'll recover from his bronchitis!