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 …
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Regulating for health – to nanny or not to nanny
I went to an extremely interesting FABResearch conference last week – Sugar, Fat & Addiction: New Approaches to the Public Health Crisis; I will be reporting on the medical aspects in next week's newsletter. However, two of the presentations focused not on the medical aspects …
Sugar cement!
Don't you just love it when someone comes up with a discovery like this! It seems that cement made with waste sugar ash is stronger, less crumbly and can withstand high pressure than the ordinary stuff! Making cement from sugar also saves energy and reduces the pollution caused …
How much sugar do you eat?
Maybe not a lot but, if you are wondering, maybe you should cast your eye over Medical News Today's guideline amounts here. It is all very approximate as they do talk about the amount of sugar in a chocolate chip muffin – what size muffin? what ingredients?.... But it does …
Obtaining ‘freefrom’ prescription drugs
A couple of months ago we ran an updated version of an archive article on obtaining prescription drugs whose excipients (non-active ingredients such as fillers, capsules and colourings) were free of lactose, starch, corn, azo dyes, sugars etc – a major problem for those with …