Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals
… Behind the label: Diet Coke Pat Thomas | 1st June 2006 Ethical Living Diet Coke Additives Sugar Green Living Food … drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic …
With childhood obesity becoming epidemic in the UK, should food advertising to children be allowed to continue?
FOR: Jeremy Preston vs. Neville Rigby AGAINST
… children primarily promotes the kind of bad diets that we know should be avoided if we … in free-market democracies. Obesity and diet-related diseases are also very complex … all the social and cultural issues affecting dietary choices and lifestyle patterns, …
Food scares like Sudan 1 are finally encouraging Britons to take a more Gallic interest in what they eat
… December 2008 Ethical Living Food Food Scares Diet Sudan 1 Campaigns Additives Food And … risks from this unprecedented, modern diet, but most people take a ‘safety in numbers’ approach. A diet full of ready meals and industrialised …
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
… with fat and sugar. The Suppressors Any dietary problem can turn into a health … tweaks will obliterate suppressors from your diet. Added Sugar Ever wondered why you get … this, but here is actually what happens: A diet high in sugar and refined foods makes …
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
… mental illness and a nutritionally poor diet. This isn’t flavour of the month … function and substantial evidence points to diets that are, in part, deficient in the … and pesticides, animals fed on artificial diets (grass fed beef, for instance, is much …
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
… cent of its calories come from fat. A low fat diet typically derives around 20 per cent of its calories from fat. In a high fat diet this figure rises to 40 per cent. What is more, a healthy diet might derive 8-10 per cent of calories …
Want to give up sugar while still indulging your sweet tooth? Mark Briggs rounds up 10 natural alternatives
… and processed foods, sugar dominates our diet. With Britain’s obesity levels shooting … the recipe, stevia was used in Japanese Diet Coke. The herb recently ran into trouble … sugar alternative in the US under the term ‘dietary supplement’. Stevia has no calories …
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...
… over seven years found those with a high diet of meat containing sodium nitrite had a … to state if animals have been fed on a GM diet. Soya In 1971 soya was farmed on 37,000 … day than a beef cow. Dairy cows are fed a diet of silage (wet, fermented grass) and high …
The good, bad, and ugly sides of chocolate addiction.
… to. So, for the 5-10 per cent of your diet that isn’t of local origin, it’s … Antioxidants are an important part of the diet because they help fight the damage to …
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
… metabolic processes. Omnivores on a good diet get all they need from food. There is no … is around five times that in an omnivorous diet. Similarly, intake of glucuronolactone (a …
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.
… world for a more globalised, Western-style diet. So far, in affluent Northern countries … message: avoid processed food and base your diet around home-cooked, fresh, local, …
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
… these form an ever more important part of our diet, so must there be a corresponding …
Biological rocket fuel they may be, but ‘sports’ drinks can be a danger to health in the long term. Pat Thomas reports
… ridiculous. Instead, it adds to our daily diets more calories, caffeine, sugar and … to a raised risk of diabetes. High sugar diets leech essential minerals such as copper, …
Confused by chlorobutanol? Baffled by bronopol? George Blacksell has the skinny on beauty’s nastiest additives
… Yohimbe and snakeroot, yohimbine is used in diet products and anti-cellulite creams. Often sold as a herbal diet pill, and frequently as an aphrodisiac, …
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
… Dr. Mancini. ‘Like “I have to have a special diet to lose weight” or “I want to be able to …