Health in the media
This smacks of desperation, the meat industry are clearly on the back foot now that there have never been so many vegans and meat sales are dropping.
The study in question was published in the BMJ...
Cancer Research UK say that obesity now causes more cases of bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers than smoking.
In the UK around one in every four...
The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) is an independent collaboration of scientists, doctors, scholars and policy experts from all over the world. Their report,...
Over 1.2 million pigs in China have already been ‘culled’ to try and prevent the disease spreading. In the Chinese year of the pig, it’s predicted that African swine fever (ASF) could kill a third of China’s pigs. That’s almost as many as are farmed in the US and Europe.
It’s a...
Meat cured with chemicals that have been blamed for causing certain types of cancer are on the hospital menus at more than four out of every five NHS trusts, according to new research...
38-year-old Finnish food and lifestyle blogger Virpi Mikkonen claimed her vegan diet brought on early menopause. Like every other article like this, the diet she was eating wasn’t a well...
The study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology followed half a million men and women over five years and found those who kept close to the guidelines (eating on average 76...
What’s new is the reason some of these chemicals are there may be completely unnecessary.
Nitrites are used in the preserving process of meats such as bacon, ham and salami for two apparent reasons – to give it its distinctive pink colour and to lower the risk of food poisoning.
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One of the mums in the article describes how she has lost friends over her decision to raise her child vegan, they accused her of denying him any choice. The way she sees it is that she had no choice when, as a child, she was given meat and fish and told to clear her plate. Toddler staples, such...
Writing at length about her four-week vegan experience, Sarah Vine – married to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – didn’t hold back in criticising...