Alexa at YesNoBananas has been seriously on the rampage over the last few weeks - but who can blame her? The new food labelling regulations about which I blogged a couple of days ago and she has blogged a number of times (most recently as a letter to the FSA) are enough, as my …
Food/Health Policy
The new allergen regulations – a wasted opportunity
What a wasted opportunity! The Face-o-twittersphere has been erupting during the last week over the new regulations on allergen labelling – and with reason. (The regulations are not due to come into force until December 2014 but the FSA has just issued some guidelines which is …
Could Omega 3s solve our mental health crisis?
For those holistic souls who see good nutrition as an essential requirement for both physical and emotional/mental health, it is self-evident that a dearth of the Omega 3 essential fatty acids, DHA and EPA, could affect mental capacity and well being. DHA is, after …
FMTs (otherwise known as poo) to be treated as a drug
Over the past several years there has been a growing interest in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – the 'transplantation' of healthy-bacteria-filled faeces from a well person's gut into the guts of those suffering from a range of inflammatory digestive and bowel conditions whose …
‘Sweetening milk with non-nutritive sweeteners without declaring them on the label will make it easier for consumers to identify its overall nutritional value’…
What?....... Well, that, if you can get your head around it, is what the US International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) is asking the FDA to let them do. It is, apparently, all part of trying to combat obesity by improving …