14 May 2008

Child Welfare

Child Welfare’s National Director Ashley Theron joined us today and spoke about the Child Welfare Organisation and International Child Protection Week- which will be celebrated next week.

Child Welfare South Africa (CWSA) is an umbrella body that represents 171 affiliates and branches as well as developing children’s organisations in communities throughout South Africa. Together with its members it forms the largest non-profit, non-governmental organisation in the country in the fields of child protection and child and family care and development

For more information on the organisation call 021 9453 111, fax 0219453 123 or email westerncape@childwelfaresa.org.za

Southern African Fraud Protection Services

Identity Theft and Impersonation are becoming a serious problem both here in South Africa and worldwide.

Executive Director of Southern African Fraud Protection Services (SAFPS) Pat Cunningham also joined us. SAFPS is a non-profit membership association solely dedicated to the prevention of financial crime.

If you believe you have been impersonated or your identity stolen then;

1. Register with our free Protective Registration Service by clicking on the button on the left of the screen "Lost or Stolen ID or Passport". They will circulate your details to all the major banks and retailers to try and stop the criminal use of your ID book. (Conditions apply)

2. Request your credit profile from the credit bureaux;

TransUnion - 0861482482

Experian - 0861105665

3. Don't give your personal details, credit card numbers, PIN numbers and other personal information over the phone, the internet or to anybody you don't know.

For more information either contact the SAFPS Help-Line on 0860 101 248. For a registration form – fax on demand to 082 239 2828, call them on 011 869 6460 or email safps@safps.org.za

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Colorectal Cancer

We also interviewed Celéste Naudé a Registered Dietician from the Nutrition Information Center at the University of Stellenbosch (NICUS) about Colorectal Cancer. This type of Cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in the western world.

The relatively poor survival has prompted the emphasis on prevention of this devastating disease. CRC is one of the two major cancers, the risk of which is commonly agreed to be modified mainly by food, nutrition and lifestyle habits.

“In general, an astonishing 60-70% of cancer cases have been directly linked to our daily dietary and lifestyle habits,” says the NICUS website.

The website also says that smoking is thought to contribute to the development of 30% of all cancers and dietary factors to 35%. These figures effectively imply that the majority of human cancers are potentially preventable. Certain dietary factors are protective against cancer, while others can contribute to the development thereof. It’s thus clear that a series of small adjustments in what we eat and what we do can make a big difference.

CRC is said to be the second major cancer (after stomach cancer)- the risk which is commonly agreed to be modified mainly by food, nutrition and lifestyle habits.

For more info email http://webhost.sun.ac.za/nicus