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Coronavirus – have we learnt nothing?
- Coronavirus
We’ve been here before – viruses jumping from animals to people – but we don’t seem to have learnt anything.
Prescribing health documentaries
- Blood Pressure
- Cholesterol
- Diabetes
- Obesity and Overweight
- Vegan diets
Dr Ameera Brett explains how prescribing health documentaries is helping her patients
Veganism and pregnancy – what you need to know!
- Pregnancy and Fertility
- Vegan diets
Being vegan invites comments and unsolicited opinions at all times but when you’re pregnant and vegan, it goes into overdrive and you may even begin to doubt yourself.
Gut feeling
- Digestion
- Farting/Flatulence
- Fibre
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Mental Health & Cognitive Function
- Vegan diets
What is the gut microbiota? The term ‘microbiota’ is used to describe the collection of different microbes that inhabit different parts of the body. For example, the microbiota of the…
Bird flu outbreak in Poland
The H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was detected in a turkey flock of 40,000 birds and local media reported that the outbreak might result in them all being slaughtered.…
A load of old tripe
In a speech billed as a ‘meat fight-back’ at the Oxford Farming Conference, Alice Stanton, professor of cardiovascular pharmacology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, said that nutrient…
Vegans to be protected by law
The landmark legal case was brought by Jordi Casamitjana, who believes he was unfairly dismissed by the League Against Cruel Sports after he raised concerns that its pension fund was…
Plant milks – good for you and the planet!
In ‘The unhealthy truth about non-dairy milk’ all kinds of disparaging and inaccurate comments about plant milks were thrown about. For example, how nutritionally inferior they are, how they are…