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Vitamin D conundrum

21/07/2016  |   Tags: 

As more research shows Brits are not getting enough vitamin D, the government health advisers recommend we up the intake of foods containing this vitamin or take supplements in order…

Butter was never back!

19/07/2016  |   Tags: 

It is widely accepted that replacing saturated fat from meat and dairy foods with polyunsaturated fats from olive oil, nuts, seeds and other plant oils can cut the risk of…

Complain to the BBC

07/06/2016  |   Tags: 

Viva! Health’s researcher and writer Dr Justine Butler wrote an excellent blog picking the dubious statements apart and pointing out the glaring ommissions. But if we want the BBC to listen,…

Sat Fat Spat 2

24/05/2016  |   Tags: 

A new report from the independent professional organisation, the National Obesity Forum, says avoiding butter, cream, cheese and other fatty foods is actually fuelling the obesity epidemic and accuses UK…

Over half a million vegans in the UK!

18/05/2016  |   Tags: 

Over 542,000 people in the UK are now vegan, up 360 per cent since the last count of 150,000 in 2006. Veganism is now Britain’s fastest growing lifestyle movement with…

Junk (food) journalism!

26/04/2016  |   Tags: 

More misleading headlines giving poor advice to the public… The study the headlines refer to was funded by a pharmaceutical manufacturer and looked at a very specific group of adults…

Buttering you up with fat lies

13/04/2016  |   Tags: 

This time the study, published in the British Journal of Medicine, re-examined old data taken from a nursing home and six state mental hospitals in Minnesota in the US between…

Eat to beat the silent killer

07/04/2016  |   Tags: 

WHO says there were 422 million adults living with diabetes in 2014, a fourfold increase since 1980. High blood sugar levels are a major killer – linked to 3.7 million…

And today’s misleading headline…

30/03/2016  |   Tags: 

This time the headlines say that long term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have found. Well, that’s not really what…

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