More ‘healthy’ eating advice from the UK Government that is unlikely to do any good at all

Feb, Wed 6th, 2008 Posted in : Cholesterol and Statins, Food and Medical Politics, Healthy Eating By : 16 Comments

Here in the UK we look to the Government’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) to guide us regarding what we should be eating, and we also trust them when it comes to ensuring the food industry doesn’t offer us too much shite to eat. Or that’s the theory, anyway. In reality, I reckon the FSA does [...]

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UK health minister calls for mass medication through water supply

Feb, Mon 4th, 2008 Posted in : Food and Medical Politics By : 14 Comments

I read yesterday that Alan Johnson, the Health Minister here in the UK, is going to call this week for the practice of water fluoridation to be extended here in the UK. Currently about 10 per cent of the UK population is piped fluoridated water, something that is that we are told would reduce dental [...]

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Feeling fat may be worse for you than actually being fat

Feb, Fri 1st, 2008 Posted in : Brain and Behaviour, Food and Medical Politics, Weight Loss By : 3 Comments

News broke in the UK this week that prescriptions for obesity drugs topped 1 million in 2006 ” an eight-fold increase in just seven years. No doubt some of this increase has come about as a result of the increasing dire statistics about the burgeoning rates of obesity. However, as I revealed here and here, [...]

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