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More evidence that obesity is not the spectre it’s so often made out to be

Friday, September 29th, 2006

This week’s British Medical Journal contains a report of a study published this week in the journal Critical Care in which diabetes was found to be associated with an increased risk of organ failure (such as heart or kidney failure) and death from this, but obesity (in the absence of diabetes) was not. This […]

Snack attack – are crisps really causing our children a major oil crisis?

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

The British Heart Foundation has launched a hard-hitting campaign which highlights the fact that a child consuming a packet of crisps a day will down a full 5 litres of cooking oil over the course of a year. I’m all for the idea of highlighting the hazards of processed foods, but I have a […]