This is a very long report of a totally fascinating day organised and led by Dr Rachel Nicoll under the auspices of the Biolab Medical Unit. It was designed for health professionals so much of the supporting science was way above my head, but the message was clear. Mitochondria …
Sugar
Yet more bad news about sugar
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. …
Ecological Medicine
Sarah Myhill is not everyone's idea of an average GP. Indeed so far was she from the GMC (General Medical Council)'s idea of an average GP that they tried to 'de-frock' her no less than 12 times. Only to have their attempts foiled by their own lawyers who pointed out that 'all …
Tasting chocolate – by eye, by sound, by touch…..
To be honest, although this fascinating evening was hosted by the Academy of Chocolate and chocolate was what we tasted, it was much more about how we tasted than what we tasted. Led by Professor Charles Spence, Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford, we did taste …
Sugar success
George Osborne's surprise new sugar tax has been greeted with the predictable chorus of glad cries from health campaigners, howls of derision from industry and healthy scepticism from commentators. But whatever the chancellor's motives (and such is the repute in which he is held …