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Earlier this year a major study found fresh evidence linking red meat to bowel cancer. Now a study of the diets and lifestyles of 218 Crohn’s patients has revealed a...
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Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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Earlier this year a major study found fresh evidence linking red meat to bowel cancer. Now a study of the diets and lifestyles of 218 Crohn’s patients has revealed a...
The Royal College of Physicians’ report on diet and heart disease in 1976 encouraged us to eat white meat in place of red on the grounds that it contains less…
Like a record stuck in a groove – the advice just keeps on repeating itself. Eat more fish to be healthy, to make your brain grow, to turn you into…
Viva! nutritionist Amanda Woodvine explains why in her Globesity report and outlines what you can do to lose weight perfectly, painlessly and permanently. It’s a huge problem, it’s growing rapidly…
Heart disease affects almost 2.6 million people in the UK and kills over 100,000 of them every year – it is our biggest killer. Twenty-one per cent of men can...
Obesity is now the most important nutritional disease in the Western world. And in even the poorest countries it is increasing at an alarming rate. For the first time in…
Don’t buy the old chestnut that a world-class athlete can’t get enough protein from a vegetarian diet! Carl Lewis is all the proof you need, the greatest track-and-field athlete ever…
People who have lactose intolerance can’t digest lactose, the sugar in milk, and therefore have to avoid dairy products. As milk and dairy products consumption has been suggested to play...