Articles

If you want to ‘be the change you want to see in the world’ there are worse places to start than by looking at what we eat, why we eat it and what effect our eating has on the global community that extends well beyond the doors of the local supermarket. A recent US study […]

Last month the British Medical Association called on the UK government to introduce a 20% tax on sugary drinks. The bold step, said the BMA, could be a useful first step by the government in tackling poor eating habits which are increasing prevalence of obesity and diet-related health problems in the UK. The money raised […]

Sometimes we need to see the big picture. Most of us instinctively know that human health and wellbeing depends on the health and wellbeing of the planet. We accept the idea often without really going into the depths of how and why this is true. We also accept the inevitable rolling of eyes when we […]

Science is supposed to make our life better. It’s supposed to help us understand more about the world around us and many of us trust that the ‘scientific method’ has been so well thought-out that it cannot possibly mislead us. But guess what? That’s not always the case and a new study into what might […]

In the face of uncertainty we often look to science to help us make sense of things. This is particularly true in complex areas such as GMOs where adverse effects may be difficult to predict or may even be masked by other aspects of our lives and diets. The potential link between GMOs and cancer […]

What happens when researchers find something that challenges the status quo and the huge volumes of received opinions that we have all been led to believe are ‘fact’? This week’s chocolate ‘scandal’ provided some insight. A large 12-year study in the journal Heart, found that people who eat a substantial amount of chocolate every day […]

The news over the last couple of weeks has been awash with stories about cancer ‘cures’. Look carefully at these stories, though. In fact the genetically modified virus that ‘cures’ cancer – only marginally improved survival rates and has struggled to get approval in the US because of concerns over its lack of real benefit. […]

The pro-GM bias of the BBC was plain to see during Monday’s (8th June) Panorama programme. Blinkered and narrow rather than panoramic, selective and prejudicial rather than investigative, this sorry display set a new low for a programme which was once a flagship of investigative journalism. It had no more veracity and insight than the […]

I am not a vegetarian but I wholeheartedly support this week’s National Vegetarian Week. Why? Because for a whole variety of reasons we simply cannot continue to eat the way we are eating. In my lifetime the global population has doubled but our meat consumption has quadrupled; and while the global population is set to […]

Honey bees have disappeared at a staggering rate over the last year, according to a new government report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The numbers are significant and “troubling” and for the first time summer deaths have outnumbered the winter ones.This is the first time the USDA has released information about summer month […]