The excellent monthly FAB Research newsletter has devoted its August issue to the evils of sugar - especially the evils of fructose. Fructose is to be found, often in the guise of high fructose corn syrup, in the majority of processed foods and virtually all fizzy drinks. …
Nutrition
Could a diet heavier in oily fish help migraine sufferers?
New research published in the BMJ this month and reported in the Guardian and by FAB Research suggests that raising intakes of Omega 3 fatty acids by eating more oily fish and using Omega 3-high oils or 'butter's reduced both the frequency and length of people's headaches …
Want some holiday reading? Try the National Food Strategy plan.
No - I am not joking. If you are even remotely interested in your fellow citizens' health, our children's diet, the state of our farming industry, biodiversity, climate change - or even systems analysis - you will find it extremely interesting. And, if you believe that the …
Plant based diets appear to protect against COVID19
Research from a team at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore reported in the BMJ Journals suggests that plant based or pescaterian diets protect against severe COVID19. And not just protect slightly. 'After adjusting for important confounders, …
FreeFrom Food Awards judging in times of COVID
No matter how you cut it, judging for the FreeFrom Food Awards is not something you can do over Zoom. While sending out parcels of five or even ten products to judges might be feasible, sending out parcels of 50 certainly would not be. Even if the numbers were manageable, we …