Viva! Health unravels the most recent scientific research and makes it easy to understand. Here we update you on the latest findings…
Porky Pies
The TV campaign is designed to try and change how people see pork – as fatty, unhealthy and unpopular. The AHDB is a levy board funded by farmers, their sole…
Childhood obesity crisis spurs call to action against Big Food
An enormous study of 128.9 million people revealed that the global number of overweight and obese children is alarmingly high and all major health organisations are calling for action. News…
Blind hypocrisy
The story refers to an unnamed psychologist who thinks that ‘clean eating’ can have a devastating effect. So-called ‘clean eating’ usually involves a diet free of processed foods, gluten, sugar,…
Vegans, hair and iron
An ‘expert’ has warned that vegan men could lose their hair faster than meat-eaters because of the supposed lack of iron in their diets. This person is certainly no nutrition…
Should we be worried about iodine?
Read our page on iodine. New reports this week in the Daily Mail and Independent suggest that if we drink plant milks, we might go short of this trace mineral.…
Who is eating all the soya?
The Guardian published a bizzare piece featuring a letter about how soya-eating vegans are destroying the planet – shame no one checked the facts first! Think soya is something only…
Gelatine is not a superfood
This week, Channel 4 broadcast Superfoods: The Real Story. This programme examines so-called superfoods and reveals the science (if any) underlying the claims, or so they claim. First up was…
