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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 [...]

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Fad diets accused of making the obesity epidemic worse

I caught this on radio media and in the national press on Monday 23/11/09. Professor Chris Hawkey, of the British Society of Gastroenterology was speaking at the “Gastro 2009″ conference in London. He claimed that promotion of unhealthy foods and diets has fostered over-eating and an obsession with eating only ‘good’ foods. He was set [...]

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Forget Cholesterol and statins – here’s how you really avoid heart disease

This is a great article by Jerome Burne. If you are interested in this area, I cannot recommend highly enough “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Dr Malcolm Kendrick – funny and extremely logical, it should be compulsory reading for every public health advisor and statin prescriber world-wide. Would it surprise you to know that it [...]

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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 [...]

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Obesity: Deadlier than smoking

A verbatim extract from the article: The foresight report, written by 250 leading scientists, says Britain’s obesity crisis is so severe that it would take at least 30 years to reverse. If current trends continue, by 2050 about 60 per cent of men, 50 per cent of women and 25 per cent of children in [...]

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