If you 'deskfast' with sugary, fat-filled cereal bars instead of eating a good breakfast you could be doing untold damage to your body and mind. By Pat Thomas
… If you 'deskfast' with sugary, fat-filled cereal bars instead of … Reading University found that kids who eat sugary snacks instead of proper breakfasts … per cent cereal. The rest is fillers – mostly sugar, fat and bulking agents – making this …
Over 1,000 juvenile delinquents showed a 44 per cent drop in antisocial behaviour when put on a low sugar diet. So why is the government completely ignoring what we are feeding our children, and yet is happy to spend £2,500 on administering each ASBO?
… Anti-social Behaviour Orders Nutrition Diet Sugar Junk Food Food And Health Mental Health … in antisocial behaviour when put on a low sugar diet. So why is the government … the diet – junk foods and in particular high sugar snacks. In a 1983 study of 3,000 …
Humans have been breastfeeding for nearly half a million years. It’s only in the last 60 years that we have begun to give babies highly processed convenience food called ‘formula’. Pat Thomas investigates
… content increased, usually by adding sugar. Milk fat, which is not easily absorbed … While most infant formulas do not contain sugar in the form of sucrose, they can contain high levels of other types of sugar such as lactose (milk sugar), fructose …
The human species has been breastfeeding for nearly half a million years. It’s only in the last 60 years that we have begun to give babies the highly processed convenience food called ‘formula’.
… content increased, usually by adding sugar. Milk fat, which is not easily absorbed … While most infant formulas do not contain sugar in the form of sucrose, they can contain high levels ofother types of sugar such as lactose (milk sugar), fructose …
Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals
… June 2006 Ethical Living Diet Coke Additives Sugar Green Living Food And Farming Health … Apart from being the beverage of choice for sugar-phobic individuals the world over, … – guzzle more of this supposedly healthy, sugar-free alternative to regular Coke than …
The human gut is a unique ecosystem and the hallmark of any healthy ecosystem is the presence of a diversity of micro-organisms. If you are a slave to probiotic drinks you could be encouraging an unhealthy imbalance. Pat Thomas reports.
… benefits or otherwise of sucking down these sugary drinks every day in the name of health. … be offset by the fact that it is also high in sugar. Each 100g pot contains 13g of liquid sugar. To put this in perspective, a recent …
Fruit and vegetables as nature intended them, delivered direct to your door. Matilda Lee reports
… olive oil, vinegar, butter, milk, eggs, sugar, basil, garlic, oregano, thyme, … 25 g butter, salt and pepper, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp sugar, ½ tsp nutmeg, 225ml/1 cup milk, 9 1/2 … salt and pepper 3. Beat the eggs, add the sugar and nutmeg. Add the milk. Stir into the …
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...
… plants in either Germany or the UK. Sugar and apple are used to off-set the … the bacon in your BLT is injected with salt, sugar, apple, flavouring, sodium triphosphate, … gets its sharp taste from added alcohol. Sugar British Sugar is the UK’s largest …
It’s easy to feel so overwhelmed by the problems facing our planet that we turn away to whatever will cheer us. Pat Thomas shows us the pattern of climate change denial
… So we take the issue apart in small doses and sugar the pill with familiar, but ultimately …
By radically changing the way we acquire our food, the development of agriculture has condemned us to live worse than ever before. Not only that, agriculture has led to the first significant instances of large-scale war, inequality, poverty, crime, famine and human induced climate change and mass extinction.
By Clive W. Dennis (winner of the Ecologist/Coady International Institute 2006 Essay Competition)
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
… Consumerism Additives Fast Food Sugar Food And Health Allergies Pesticides …
Obesity is a problem that is chronic, stigmatised, costly to treat and rarely curable. Why? Because we are looking in the wrong places for a solution. Pat Thomas reports
… by many areas: availability of cheap, high sugar food products, unemployment, age-related … blocks leptin and it also raises blood sugar, which in turn decreases the response to … on poor quality food that is high in sugar and fat and low in nutrition. Their …
If you’re one of the millions of people using fake tan to look attractive and healthy, be wary: they are full of chemicals that can cause damage to your skin. By Pat Thomas
… chemical called dihydroxyacetone (DHA). This sugar derivative has been the staple active …
Pat Thomas, Health Editor of the <i>Ecologist<i/>, responds to Felicity Lawrence's article in the Guardian on the link between junk food and mental health
… beef) an over reliance on high-fat, high-sugar, over-processed, low quality convenience …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
… children invariably have access to highly sugared foods and drinks, and even the best behaved child can turn into a sugar saturated monster. BMA research … behaviour can improve on a diet low in sugar, artificial colourings and carbonated …