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GP’s paid to give us swine flu jabs

Doctors in Birmingham are getting £5.25 for every Swine flu jab they dish out. If they vaccinate more than 90% of those deemed at risk in their area, this goes up to £7.88 per person jabbed. (I have visions of Diabetics, asthmatics and older people being rounded up in shopping centres to get the extra [...]

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Side-effect alert for all statin users

At last, new health warnings are to be issued about statins. Can you believe that more than 6m adults in the UK (that’s over 12% of our adult population) are on these very lucrative drugs? (Lipitor alone has brought in $12.9 billion for Pfizer – and still counting!) Twenty years ago, GP’s would only get [...]

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Benecol vs Butter

The ingredients in Benecol Olive spread are: Water, Rapeseed oil, Olive oil, Plant stanol ester (plant stanol 7%), Vegetable oil, Buttermilk powder, Salt (0.9%), Emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, soya lecithins), Preservative (potassium sorbate), Acidity regulator (citric acid), Flavorings, Vitamin A, Color (carotenes), Vitamin D. The ingredients in butter are: butter. Which one [...]

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Actimel – UK press

There was a story on TV, radio and in the press today after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that Danone was wrong to claim that Actimel is “Scientifically proven” to be good for kids. The ASA investigation has been going on for approximately a year and there was a lot of detail around just how [...]

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Cereal makers told: No more fake health claims

This was a long overdue article by Sean Poulter, the consumer affairs correspondent. Some cereal brands are promoted as healthy on the back of a couple of artificially added vitamins. Can you believe we spend more than £1bn on cereals each year? The consumer group, WHICH, found that 31 of the top 100 selling brands [...]

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