Articles involving: Diet & Health
22 Nov, 2024
Meat consumption averages don’t tell the whole story
Diet & Health,
A team of economists in America analysed tens of thousands of households’ grocery purchases from 2005 to 2020 to see how meat consumption had changed over…
22 Nov, 2024
New call to action on the role of red meat in society
Diet & Health, Emissions,
“Livestock systems must progress on the basis of the highest scientific standards. They are too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or…
14 Nov, 2024
Growing consumer distrust of food companies to produce healthy food
Diet & Health,
A number of high-profile food, health and children’s advocacy groups have sent an open letter to the Government urging them to go “further and faster” to…
29 Oct, 2024
New 2 year project to update flawed NOVA classification
Diet & Health,
The issue of Ultra Processed Food is gaining much more prominence as people realise that simplistic differentiators, like meat versus plant-based for example, can't possibly account…
28 Oct, 2024
UK retailers sign up to WWF’s new ‘protein transition’ methodology
Diet & Health, Emissions,
To mark World Food Day, the World Wildlife Fund launched it's new "Planet-Based Diets Retailer Methodology" which is a step-by-stop framework for retailers to measure, report…
25 Oct, 2024
Peers issue damning report on government’s ‘utter failure’ to tackle our ‘broken food system’
Diet & Health,
A new report (Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system) from the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee has demanded…
25 Oct, 2024
New program promoting plant-based diet launched in UK schools
Diet & Health,
Grant-funded organisation ProVeg has just launched their new 'Canteen to Classroom' series of ready-to-use, evidence-based lesson plans for all primary school levels. The lessons include "discovering…
23 Aug, 2024
Does ham cause diabetes? Scientist simply don’t know
Diet & Health,
By now most will have seen several alarmist headlines claiming that eating just two slices of ham a day could raise your risk of developing diabetes. Even the…
23 Oct, 2023
AHDB lead nutritionist questions Harvard study diabetes claims
Diet & Health,
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health has been widely reported in the media over the last week. Its headline-grabbing claim is that people…
01 Oct, 2019
Report in top peer reviewed medical journal debunks health scare about red meat
Diet & Health,
The American College of Physicians has published in their journal ‘Annals of Internal Medicine’ a ‘study of studies’ that reviewed the entire body of work that has…