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Cereal makers told: No more fake health claims

Written by Zoë on August 24, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Conflict, Ingredients, Media comments

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 [...]

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Is sugar killing you?

Written by Zoë on October 25, 2007 - 0 Comments
Categories: Ingredients, Media comments

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 [...]

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