Archives » January, 2007

Why epidemiological studies don’t ‘prove’ anything

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

January is typically a time when individuals seek to adopt healthier habits, and activity and exercise often feature here as part of the plan. While it is often said that exercise is healthy, actually there is not as much evidence for this as you might think.
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Why fructose needs to be consumed with caution

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Last Friday’s blog was about the UK’s Food Standard Agency’s (FSA) ‘traffic light’ food labelling scheme, or more specifically, the idiocy of it. One of the anomalies I mentioned was the fact that fruit manages to ring up a red light according to the FSA scheme, on account of its sugar content. That [...]