Health in the media
Products that are being recalled include frozen sweetcorn, peas, beans and spinach and UK supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Lidl, Aldi, Waitrose and Iceland are all affected. The full list can be seen...
New research from the European Heart Journal says that high blood pressure in middle age increases the risk of dementia later in life.
They found that a reading of 130 or...
The recent boom in veganism has seen a whole host of new vegan businesses launch, offering vegans a huge range of options in terms...
Writing in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, Professor Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research said a combination of a genetic mutation while babies are still in the womb, followed by an infection with an unknown bacteria...
The study found that those who ate up to one egg a day had a lower risk of stroke, heart disease and death from cardiovascular disease than those who never, or hardly ever, ate eggs. Compared with those who never or rarely consumed eggs, daily consumers were more likely to have a higher level of...
Whilst we provided enough scientific data to support the claim and ASA acknowledged that there are indeed 35 hormones in milk, they considered the wording ‘linked to cancer’ misleading as apparently the public may interpret it as ‘drinking milk causes cancer’. We think people are smarter than...
Gove said improving our national diet is an important job for our farmers, he said: “A balanced diet, rich in fresh fruit and vegetables, beans, pulses and cereals, fresh dairy produce and protein sources such as fresh fish, offal and properly sourced meat is critical to human health and...
Last week, at the Unite to Cure Fourth International Vatican Conference, Professor Walter Willett - professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard Medical School - announced that according to new calculations of Harvard scientists, at least one-third of early deaths could be prevented...
Late last year, AHDB’s ‘Love Pork’ adverts appeared on TV claiming that pork was low in fat. Government health guidelines state that:
- To be described as low-fat, a food must contain 3g or less total fat per 100g.
- To be described as low-saturated fat, it must contain 1 ...
When we leave the EU, we may end up swallowing more than we bargained for. A new 500-page report from the Office of the United States Trade Representative sets out the barriers...