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10 facts about The Olympics & Junk Food Sponsors

The London Olympics start today (Wednesday 25th July 2012) with the women’s football kicking off in Cardiff. There has been much talk about the sponsors involved in the Olympics – particularly the junk food sponsors – McDonalds, Coca-cola and Cadbury. Here are some factoids that you may enjoy: 1) The major part of funding comes [...]

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Social workers took son into care because mum wouldn’t feed him junk

This is a horrifying story, which will send shivers down the spines of loving, law abiding parents… Zak was a fairly typical two year old – more interested in the world around him than in getting food inside him (my niece is the same). The caring parents took him to their doctor for some advice [...]

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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 [...]

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Junk food dummies

This article had me shaking my head in disbelief. When are we going to change our thinking about fats and carbs?! Some scientists at Oxford University have fed a junk food diet to rats and they concluded that in just 9 days, a high fat diet damaged the rats’ short term memory, made them significantly [...]

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The junk food divide

This was a really interesting article in the Daily Mail on the North-South divide, when it comes to shopping baskets. mysupermarket.co.uk have surveyed 250,000 grocery orders to see what is going in the shopping baskets in different parts of the UK. They found the following: – Shoppers in the North East spend 22% less on [...]

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