Viva Health is shocked and appalled on hearing plans to provide more than 5,000 year 11 school pupils in County Durham with fish oil supplements which may harm health rather than improve it.
New research has highlighted the nutritional advantages of bringing up children on a vegetarian diet. The prestigious Journal of Pediatric Health Care states that vegetarian children and teenagers take in less harmful cholesterol…
Leading health charity the Viva Health is urging people to celebrate National Seafood Week (October 6th-13th) with a healthier, kinder fish-free seafood supper. Seafood does not have to be fish and shellfish; there are many fish-free alternatives…
Far from being a healthy food, cow’s milk and dairy products are at the heart of the UK’s worsening health statistics, a new scientific report will claim. The White Lies report and details of a new health campaign…
A leading health charity is calling for a total ban on all imports of milk that contain raised levels of a growth hormone linked to cancer. DEFRA has confirmed Viva Health’s fears that milk from the US is being imported into the EU…
The Milk Development Council (MDC) and Dairy UK is endangering children’s health, claims Viva Health, a national health charity. It reports that the latest marketing ploy, of promoting cow’s milk in schools, ignores an increasing body of scientific evidence…
Health charity, the Viva Health has warned today that Food Standards Agency research into contamination of food with two highly dangerous pollutants demonstrates once again that eating meat and fish carries a far higher health risk from pollutants than eating plant-based foods.
A study which finds that doctors are not prescribing sufficient drugs to heart disease patients ignores evidence that dietary approaches are just as effective in lowering cholesterol levels.
Holding a Danger – Do Not Eat Fish banner above a very sad, giant halibut, health charity nutritionists interrupted a Billingsgate fish market photocall featuring chef Gordon Ramsey and media nutritionist Amanda Ursell this morning.
A new scientific report published today challenges the claim that fish is essential for good health. It shows that the Government’s public health strategy of promoting fish and fish oils to safeguard against heart disease has been a failure.
