Breakfast cereals with more sugar than a doughnut
This accompanied a great Despatches programme on Channel 4 (UK) on Monday 26 October 2009: (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3007260) The programme looked at sugar (and salt) in our breakfast cereals and did some really practical exercises with children and parents, which were very visual and impactful. The parents didn’t have a clue how to read a cereal packet [...]
Read more »The Fat Packed Pizza
This Daily Mail article compares 6 high street pizzas (from Pizza Express to Pizza Hut) and you can tell the conclusion just from the title. I am nothing if not consistent – my messages about eating only real food and nature knows best etc may get boring, but they will never change. As I have [...]
Read more »Chocolate Price Fears
We are facing the worst cocoa shortage for 40 years – the price of cocoa rose to £2,055 a ton this week. I only need 85g each day – for my 85% cocoa 100g chocolate bar. So, dear cocoa growers, just keep some supply trickling through! Did you know that dark chocolate has approximately 40 [...]
Read more »How a hamburger on Friday can make you hungry on Monday
Another completely inaccurate article where scientists have shown, yet again, that they don’t know the difference between their macro nutrients (this is the collective term for carbs, fats and protein). Researchers at the University of Texas claim to have shown that saturated fats trick the body into switching off the system that tells us how [...]
Read more »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 [...]
Read more »Chocolate twice a week ‘protects heart victims’
No surprise that I liked this article! As a regular consumer of 85%+ cocoa dark chocolate… A Swedish study has shown that heart attack survivors, who eat dark (real) chocolate regularly are nearly 70% less likely to die from cardiac problems than those who rarely eat it. Even a weekly treat can help, almost halving [...]
Read more »Is sugar killing you?
A verbatim extract from the article: “ A recent report claimed that if current trends continue, by 2050, 60% of men and 50% of women will be clinically obese, placing an intolerable strain on the health service as rates of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and weight-related cancer spiral. But the report did not examine [...]
Read more »Resistance is futile – Fighting chocolate craving ‘just makes you eat more’
A verbatim extract from the article: “Psychologist James Erskine, of the University of Hertfordshire, said “The act of avoidance seems to completely backfire.” We found that if you try not to think about eating chocolate, it tends to lead you to eat more….We now need to find ways to help women change their behaviour rather [...]
Read more »Doughnuts are not the enemy, claims the professor of obesity
A verbatim extract from the article: Professor Glenn Gaesser, an obesity expert from the University of Virginia, analysed the eating habits and health of hundreds of thousands of men and women and found those who feasted on carbs were often thinner, than those who severely limited their carb intake. He said; I found, totally contrary [...]
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