Sugar by any other name
Sugar naturally appears in fruit (as glucose and fructose) and milk (as maltose) and in starches (once digested, as glucose). If you eat a variety …
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Legal drugs – sugar
We’ve looked at the legal drugs caffeine, nicotine and alcohol; today we’ll look at highly processed ready-meals and snacks or ’junk food’. While junk foods …
Poor hospital food and parking
Jersey Evening Post article 05 February 2020 Some years ago, when I last went to see my doctor, I remarked how stressed and tired he …
Changes to help prevent cancer
My Jersey Evening Post article from 20th February; it’s about cancer. February 4th saw World Cancer Day; at the same time there was a news …
Fibre sources and low carb
My article in today’s JEP talks about sources of fibre and mixed messages (and misunderstanding) of low carb. Last month saw another study published by …
Puddings are a social construct
Back to the NHS again; bless their little cotton socks. A few points for trying – and many points off for doing it badly. This …
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 …
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:
17g of sugar I didn’t want
As a nutritionist I rarely buy processed foods but had misjudged today and was hungry, so ordered a porridge pot to eat while I was …
Peanut butter ~ not always so simple!
Here are three types of peanut butter I found in our kitchen (more than one of us does the shopping); this small sample shows how …
Are carbohydrates linked to cataracts? [Study]
I was just having a conversation with a friend who is soon to have his cataracts treated*. Given a diet high in sugars has all …