Health in the media
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...
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...