Health in the media
Researchers examined 47 studies published between 2006 and 2017, including over one million participants, looking at the effects of animal and plant-based foods on prostate cancer risk. Results showed that men who ate the most dairy...
Controversial dietary guideline recommendations published in Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that adults can continue to consume red and processed...
The article suggests Jaden was missing out on protein because he was following a vegan diet. All plant foods contain protein and it really isn’t difficult to get enough if you eat enough calories – wholegrains, pulses, tofu, nuts and seeds are all packed with protein!
Rather than...
The article is based on new research presented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Barcelona. It suggests that a 16-week vegan diet can boost gut bacteria linked to...
It turns out that this story is based on products sold in Australian supermarkets. Clare Farrand, Senior Public Health Nutritionist and the...
The EPIC-Oxford study published in the BMJ that their scare-story is based on suggests that vegetarians (including vegans) have a much lower risk of heart disease but may have a higher risk of stroke.
Throughout the article...
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...