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The organic world has been celebrating a rare ‘win’ this week. A new analysis has found that, compared to conventionally grown crops, organic crops contain higher levels of certain antioxidants, lower levels of pesticides and lower levels of the heavy metal cadmium. According to the scientists, eating organic food could boost a person’s antioxidant intake […]

I believe in trusting your gut – and I’m not just talking about intuition. Our guts are remarkable. They comprise a nervous system every bit as sensitive and sophisticated as your brain – which is why the gut is sometimes referred to as the ‘second brain’. In the last decade or so scientists have discovered […]

They were the pictures that shocked the world. Laboratory animals riddled with tumours after consuming both GM maize and its associated herbicide Roundup The 2012 study by Séralini et al, published in the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology, caused a scientific storm and triggered an orchestrated campaign by pro-GM lobbyists and scientists to discredit it. […]

It’s always a good day when you hear that levels of a particular toxin that harms children are going down. Earlier this year a report out of Monroe County, New York, showed that levels of lead in children there were declining. This mirrors a national downward trend which suggests that levels of this neurotoxic ‘heavy […]

There’s a riveting book doing the rounds at the moment. You may think you’ve heard it all before. In moments of exhaustion or relative lulls in the onslaught of health and environmental problems we face, you may even wonder whether the anger and angst directed at so-called “authorities” is justified. Then along comes the cheerfully […]

You will have seen the doomsday headlines about the recent government survey which highlighted the looming health disaster that is the average British diet. The media furore suggested that fruit juice and cereal were nothing less than health ‘timebombs’. We’ve certainly reports on the problems of things like the hidden sugars in fruit juice, sugary […]

Question: How many government officials does it take to make sensible decisions about pesticide regulation? Answer: Nobody knows, because it’s never been done. Anybody who follows the pesticide news trail will be aware of the recent report from the US that traces of glyphosate – which since the introduction of GMO crops has become the […]

We might just call it a walk in the woods. But to the Japanese it is known as shirin-yoku, or ‘forest bathing’. In Japan a gentle walk in a forest has become a recognised form of relaxation and/or stress management activity in Japan and is regarded as having similar health benefits to natural aromatherapy. The […]

We all know what climate change brings. It brings changes in weather with more extremes of heat, precipitation and storms. It brings changes in sea levels and broadens the range major vectors of disease like mosquitoes. We’ve covered some of the health risks associated with climate change, including the mental health risks, on our site […]

Sometimes a thing just sticks in your head. The organic food and pesticides story, which we featured in our last newsletter, threw up many questions for me – only some of which got articulated on the day. Given Cancer Research UK’s (CRUK) dismissal of the pesticide/cancer link, one of these questions was: what is the […]