Meat consumption and mortality

Written by on March 13, 2013 - 15 Comments
Categories: Ingredients, Media comments, Research

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 [...]

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An apple a day does (not) keep the doctor away – more bad science

Written by on April 29, 2012 - 5 Comments
Categories: Media comments, Research

I love the Mail! I would have a fraction of the diet and obesity stories to comment on that I do without it. This blog post comes from today’s Mail on Sunday – from the health section in Review (29/4/2012). Described as “Why should we eat five a day? And is butter bad? A food [...]

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Five-a-day – is it enough?!

Written by on March 23, 2011 - 2 Comments
Categories: Gov. Policy

Five-a-day – is it enough?! Zoe Harcombe comments on an article in The Independent about 5-a-day and heart disease, cancer and bad science.

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Red meat & cancer & very bad journalism

Written by on February 25, 2011 - 10 Comments
Categories: Gov. Policy, Media comments

I am struggling to think of a diet & health story, which has been reported worse than the one dominating the press this week – and there tends to be at least one in the press every day. The newspapers seem to think that “artery-clogging” is an adjective to precede either, or both, of the [...]

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