Why it Pays to Read the Label – Don’t Buy Anything With These Ingredients Yesterday, Lara showed me an Instagram video clip made by a young USA foodie. He apparently loves British food and came over to taste our famous fayre (fish & chips, I think, mainly!) Although he ate loads of ‘rubbish’ here, he claims to have lost weight. Which came as a big surprise to him, bearing in mind all the fatty stodge he shoved in his face….
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Lara and I sat down this morning to a bowl of fresh strawberries from the garden. It’s been a cracking gardening year so far, I have to say, after last year’s spring washout, with everything growing nicely. We’ve already been tucking into baby courgettes and peppery radishes, while the broccoli, tomatoes and squashes are coming along nicely. Anyway, back to the strawberries. Today we ate them on rolled oats pancakes, with added oat bran, flaxseeds and chia seeds. This has…
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As you know, I buy all the UK newspapers. It keeps me aware of all the health stories that I can look into for you – but, just as importantly, it allows me to track the behaviour of the mainstream media. And this month has been extraordinary. I’ve gathered a pile of clippings from a media blitz so breathlessly enthusiastic, you’d think we had cured cancer or ended obesity forever. I’m talking, of course, about the coverage of drugs like…
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Let me ask you a question… Do you know what mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids are when they appear on a food label? Or what about polysorbate 80? Or carboxymethylcellulose? Chances are, you don’t… But these are part of a group of ingredients called emulsifiers found in almost every ultra-processed food (UPF) on the shelf. Emulsifiers are chemicals that keep oil and water from separating, which is handy if you’re a food manufacturer trying to make products that sit…
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Why is this Type of Cancer Rising In Younger People? There’s a cancer trend on the rise… But this time it’s not affecting the very old among us… It’s hitting people under 50 — sometimes even in their 30s or late 20s. Early-onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC) used to be rare in younger people. But it now accounts for about 1 in 10 new cases worldwide. According to the current predictions, that number could more than double by 2030. So what’s…
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Lara went for a girls’ night out at the weekend. A bunch of her friends were getting together for a few birthday drinks. She was pleased to see them, and had good fun, but she came home shocked. Out of the five other women (all aged between 48 and 60) FOUR were on Ozempic, or a version of it (they’re known as GLP-1 agonists or, more crudely “fat jabs”.) And they were all enthusiastic about how much weight they’d lost,…
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