I have just been to see my godmother, aged 101, who now lives in a very good care home. She is bedridden, has a memory span of about 10 seconds and although a newspaper is delivered to her each day, she has not meaningfully read it for at least three years. She is also totally …
Food/health policy
How Coke and Pepsi are buying off charities like Save the Children
In our one day's break before we restart FreeFromFood Awards judging I have been trying to catch up on some of the research report alerts that John Scott has sent us over the last month and, in my trawl, this one caught my eye – not central to foodsmatter's remit, but very much …
So was Andrew Wakefield right all along?
Dr Andrew Wakefield was recently 'dis-barred' from practicing his profession in the UK largely as a result of a British Medical Journal suggestion that, in 1998, he 'fabricated' the results of his research into what was to be found in the guts of children who regressed into …
‘EU Investigates Bug Farming for Protein’ – who can resist a headline like that?….
'Do you prefer the grasshopper to the ants? What kind of grubs do you have? How about some fried lice? The future of chatter over the dinner table? Insects produce much smaller quantities of greenhouse gases per kilogram of meat than cattle and pigs. This is the conclusion of …
Breast feeding furore…
Few people could fail to have logged the furore which has greeted the BMJ's publication of analysis of the research on exclusive breast feeding to the age of six months – the current recommendation of both the UK government and the WHO (World Health Organisation). The …