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Should we believe everything we read?

by | Feb 20, 2019 | Health, Traditional foods

Rather than writing a really long article about the countless holes in the recent highly publicised Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems, I’ve put together some excellent articles which take the paper apart...

Why are our brains not coping? Part I

by | Jan 26, 2019 | Health

It’s been hard to miss the subtle-as-a-brick fearmongering trying to get people to adopt a vegan diet (one which avoids all meat, fish, eggs, dairy and honey). Listening to the hype you’d think a vegan diet would instantly translate us into some sort of utopia where...

Cholesterol – friend or foe?

by | Nov 30, 2018 | Health

Lowering cholesterol has become a major past-time for people of many ages. It is fuelled by fear of having a heart attack and/or stroke, much of which comes from pharmaceutical companies wanting people to rely on statins (medications which lower cholesterol levels)...

When is food not really food?

by | Nov 30, 2018 | Health

This may seem like a bizarre question but think about the definition of food: “any substance eaten to provide nutritional support to the body”. Is what you are eating providing nutritional support to your mind and body? Or are your calories devoid of health promoting...

Gardasil – can we trust that it is safe?

by | Nov 30, 2018 | Health

A recent review of Gardasil quadrivalent, Gardasil 9 and Cervarix human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines uncovered some very disturbing facts about the trials. The review by Martinez-Lavin and Amezcua-Guerra (2017) discusses both randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and...