Meat consumption and mortality
An article entitled “Meat consumption and mortality – results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer [EPIC] and Nutrition” was published on 7 March 2013 in the BMC Medicine Journal. The full PDF is available here. The article led to the usual sensational headlines across the world – the BBC; CBC News Canada; The Herald [...]
Read more »Salt Awareness Week – 10 things to be aware of
March 11-17 2013 is “Salt Awareness Week” in the UK – what exactly might we like to be aware of? Let’s get some definitions out of the way first. Salt can be unrefined or refined. Unrefined salt is also known as sea salt. Unrefined (sea) salt comes with many valuable minerals and natural elements. Refined [...]
Read more »The Mediterranean Diet and heart disease
The last week in February (2013) saw headlines all over the world: “Mediterranean diet shown to ward off heart attack and stroke.” The Guardian ran with “Mediterranean diet ‘cuts strokes and heart attacks in at-risk groups‘.” The Sydney Morning Herald announced “Mediterranean diet cuts risk of first heart attack by 30%”. The world headlines were [...]
Read more »Horsemeat Scandal – What’s all the fuss about?
The UK is in the midst of a horsemeat scandal. The jokes are set to run and run (ha ha) but, in reality, this is no laughing matter. The story first broke in the middle of January 2013 with horse meat having been found in Tesco burgers. Other supermarket burgers were soon found to contain [...]
Read more »The British Heart Foundation & Flora pro.activ – an unhealthy relationship
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) describes itself as “a charity that aims to prevent people dying from heart diseases”. Until now, the BHF has remained relatively conflict free – a paragon of virtue in fact when compared with some other ‘heart charities’. Heart UK, for example, calls itself the cholesterol charity (cholesterol should have a [...]
Read more »Better vitamin maths this week!
How to get vitamin B6
Read more »More bad (vitamin) maths
Looks like I’ll be able to do a weekly blog on this idiotic regular snippet in the Daily Mail Good Health. Last week it was how (not) to get vitamin B12, this week is it how (not) to get magnesium – which is a mineral for starters – not even a vitamin! I did notice [...]
Read more »Olive Oil can Tap Dance!
Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of this thread as the next Daily Mail article! Here is the Daily Mail article from 19 April 2010. Olive oil can now apparently switch off genes and previous articles have told us that olive oil [...]
Read more »Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks
I saw a full page advert in a Sunday supplement magazine yesterday for Special K Mini Breaks – Chocolate variety. Described as “Mmmmmmmmmm”; “crunch”; “delish”; “biscuit”‘; “chocolate”; “crispy”; “choccy”; “biscuity”‘; “crunch”; “moreish”; “99 calories a bag”; “crunchy, delicious, biscuity bites”. How to get every word possible to tempt a dieter to eat stuff that they [...]
Read more »Sugar – how quickly can we get hooked?
I had an interesting experience over the festive season: I helped someone with an employment law case (I used to be an HR Director) and they very kindly sent me the biggest box of chocolates ever as a thank you. (My love of chocolate is well known). This was a 1.4kg box from Hotel Chocolat [...]
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