The health effects of pesticides
Pesticides include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides and antimicrobials. For the purposes of this post, we’ll look at the effects of the most ubiquitous – the …
Things that stop absorption of iron, calcium and zinc
What are the food components that prevent the absorption of iron, calcium & zinc? Mineral absorption refers to the amount of dietary minerals that the body …
One fallacy of the ‘Eatwell Plate’
The UK’s ‘Eatwell’ plate should be called ‘EatCrap’ plate. It shows an almost overwhelming misunderstanding of what constitutes a healthy diet. Here’s one of my …
How to keep your dietary New Year’s Resolutions!
Where England goes, Jersey often follows. Public Health England says that too many adults are overweight, drink too much or get too little exercise. Reasons …
Added sugar has no place in cream cheese!
Always being one to at least consider an apparent bargain, I stopped by the cooler where Philadelphia cream cheese was being sold in a ‘two …
Pregnancy and obesity – the problems we need to address
My opinion piece in today’s JEP looks at the health problems (immediate and in the future) of being obese when pregnant and at how much …
Give a Gift
What are you wishing for right now? Christmas apparel, cards and gifts are already appearing in the shops and we’ve only just started autumn! I …
Mail Fail
The Mail on Sunday (18 Sept 2016) have published an eight-page pull-out, ‘Think Yourself Slim’ and promised no forbidden foods, just the power of your mind …
Saturated fats – good or harmful?
My article in the Jersey Evening Post It had to be 800 words, so here are the 800:
Vitamin D supplements now advised for all
I’ve been saying this for years, and now it’s official: the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), after an extensive review of the data from …
FINALLY! Official advice on low-fat diet is wrong, says National Obesity Forum
I have just been listening to a heated argument on Radio 4’s Today programme… and it’s one that is not going to go away anytime …
Types of fat
There are four types of natural fat, saturated, mono-unsaturated and polyunsaturated and, less commonly, natural transfats; we also have unnatural transfats which are sadly far …
NHS inadvertently doing coeliacs a favour!
At lunchtime today I was listening to the tail end of You and Yours, a UK consumer progamme; they were talking about how the NHS …
Why this article in The Independent is wrong
This article trumpets the message that if you aren’t a true coeliac, you could get diabetes if you avoid grains. It’s wrong to say that …
What proportions of each fat type are in different foods?
In this article I mentioned that all natural fatty or oily foods contain a mix of saturated, mono-unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats and not just one …
Could diet help children with depression?
I heard a rather distressing report on Radio 4 this morning about the prevalence of depression in children and how the rate is increasing.
Number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled since 1980
The the World Health Organization (WHO) said today that the number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled to 422 million …
Climate change means crops become more fattening!
Well, this is an interesting one! A report I have just read in the New Scientist says:
Vegetarianism ‘raises risk of cancer and heart disease’ [Snippet]
No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke… but that headline from the Evening Standard is slightly (but not totally) misleading! Here’s what it is about.
Largest ever seizures of fake food and drink
Appalling! In the UK, authorities recovered nearly 10,000 litres of fake or adulterated alcohol including wine, whisky and vodka. Maybe you think that’s not so …