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Top 10...alternatives to sugar
Mark Briggs
Want to give up sugar while still indulging your sweet tooth? Mark Briggs rounds up 10 natural alternatives more...
The Ecologist meets… Dr Fabrizio Mancini
Ruth Styles
18th January, 2012
The concept of ‘self-healing’ might sound like mumbo jumbo but it’s actually a sensible way of giving our lifestyles a healthy overhaul says Dr Fabrizio Mancini - starting with organic food, plenty of sleep and lots of exercise more...
The truth about food additives: how they threaten your health
Dr Fabrizio Mancini
18th January, 2012
In an extract from his new book, The Power of Self-Healing, Dr Fabrizio Mancini explains why sugar and food additives - from aspartame to trans fats - could have a severely detrimental effect on your health more...
The A to Z of beauty baddies
George Blacksell
20th September, 2011
Confused by chlorobutanol? Baffled by bronopol? George Blacksell has the skinny on beauty’s nastiest additives more...
Behind the Label: Pot Noodle
Pat Thomas
22nd September, 2009
Marketed as the ultimate quick food fix, 240 Pot Noodles are eaten every minute in Britain. But what exactly is in the 'slag of all snacks'? Pat Thomas on fats, salt and flavour enhancers more...
Behind the label: Lucozade Sport with Caffeine Boost
Pat Thomas
22nd January, 2009
Biological rocket fuel they may be, but ‘sports’ drinks can be a danger to health in the long term. Pat Thomas reports more...
Ne Vive Pas L'Indifference
Joanna Blytman
20th December, 2008
Food scares like Sudan 1 are finally encouraging Britons to take a more Gallic interest in what they eat more...
Size really does matter
Dr Naomi Salmon
19th June, 2008
Nanofoods are the next big thing, but whatever happened to the precautionary principle asks Naomi Salmon more...
Riding the fluoride tiger
John Graham
18th June, 2008
What possible good can come from adding a known poison to our water supply? None at all, argues John Graham more...
The end of food as we know it
Joanna Blythman
1st March, 2008
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken. more...
Diet drinks linked to increase in metabolic syndrome
News
14th February, 2008
Study shows drinkers of diet drinks 34 percent more likely to suffer from disease. more...
Scientists show E-numbers link with hyperactivity
News
6th September, 2007
A major new study has shown a link between additives in children's food and hyperactivity. more...
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Behind the label: Red Bull & Nicorette patches
Pat Thomas
10th May, 2007
Trying to keep up with a fast-paced, 24/7 lifestyle *and* a smoking ban? Find that the old 'crack in a can' and a patch does the job? Think again... more...
Behind the label: Red Bull
Pat Thomas
1st March, 2007
It has spawned a dozen urban legends. It gets praised and reviled by bloggers. And it tastes like carbonated cough syrup. But does Red Bull do you any good? Pat Thomas reports more...
The new world of flying winemakers
Monty Waldin
1st December, 2006
Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports more...
Pat Thomas' letter to the Guardian, 17th October 2006
Pat Thomas
17th October, 2006
Pat Thomas, Health Editor of the Ecologist, responds to Felicity Lawrence's article in the Guardian on the link between junk food and mental health more...
BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade Off
Jon Hughes & Pat Thomas
22nd September, 2006
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys... more...
GM Potatoes – Facts and Fictions
Andy Rees
22nd September, 2006
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trialsin Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates more...
We Are All Addicts
Edward Goldsmith
1st September, 2006
A 1971 editorial from the ecologist founding editor Edward Goldsmith on how our society is becoming ever more addicted to gimmicks intended to ensure our survival in ever less favourable conditions more...
Behind the label: Diet Coke
Pat Thomas
1st June, 2006
Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals more...
Chocoholism
Pat Thomas
1st December, 2005
The good, bad, and ugly sides of chocolate addiction. more...
Special Report Supermarkets: Chicken
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label. more...Imagine…food without pesticides …seeds without patents …a future without Monsanto
John Hepburn
1st September, 2004
Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative agriculture that creates "incredible" things today.’ Actually, I think most of us are more interested in ‘credible’ things when it comes to agriculture. Like food that people can trust is safe. And crops that meet the needs of the farmers that grow them. The Monsanto slogan used to be ‘food, health, hope’. As if this wasn’t absurd enough, it has now been changed to ‘Imagine™’. John Lennon must be turning in his grave. more...
Advertising to children
Debate
1st April, 2004
With childhood obesity becoming epidemic in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue?FOR: Jeremy Preston vs. Neville Rigby AGAINST more...
Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories
Robert Kennedy Jr
1st December, 2003
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business more...Members
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