food | healthmatters
Sun, 20 Jun 2004 09:00:00 GMT: Food industry is lobbying hard to head off regulation
News
Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:00:00 GMT: Sensible and dispassionate
Review of The Oxford Book of Health Foods JG Vaughan and PA Judd Oxford University Press, 2003. £19.99
Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:00:00 GMT: Obesity rise in southern Europe
News
Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:00:00 GMT: Time for a hard look at a ?soft disaster?
As the health select committee enquiry into obesity draws to a close, each of us must decide how we will contribute a healthier future, says Kath Dalmeny
Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:00:00 GMT: News in brief 1
News
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:00:00 GMT: Food for thought
Review of Food With Latitude: a report exploring food project links across the North-South divide Anna Watson and Sally Hiscock Sustain, 2002. £20.00
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:00:00 GMT: Eating badly for two
The UK has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe ? but many pregnant teenagers have a diet that is unhealthy for them and their babies. Helen Burchett and Annie Seeley explain why nutrition for pregnant teenagers should be a public health priority
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:00:00 GMT: Fighting for the tooth
The sugar industry is up in arms over new WHO dietary guidelines. Steve Iliffe asked Aubrey Sheiham to assess the industry?s arguments
Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:00:00 GMT: Moves to cut salt could save lives
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Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:00:00 GMT: A salt on snacks!
Letter
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:00:00 GMT: Salt: why the pressure is on
The government and the food industry have been slow to act on evidence of the harmful health effects of salt ? and it?s time consumers stepped up the pressure, says Gaynor Bussell
Sun, 02 Dec 2001 09:00:00 GMT: An apple a day...
A good diet may be essential to health ? but how much can really be achieved by schemes such as free fruit in schools and food co-ops? Martin Caraher and Annie Anderson examine the evidence
Sun, 02 Dec 2001 09:00:00 GMT: Food quality lacks taste
Farming and food policy are under scrutiny as never before ? yet there?s still little understanding of the close relationships between food, health and sustainability, say Jeanette Longfield and Vicki Hird
Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:00:00 GMT: Today?s lesson: get munching!
One packet of crisps isn?t going to do any harm ? but should schools be encouraging the systematic manipulation of children?s diets in order to afford basic materials? Geof Rayner investigates
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:00:00 GMT: Healthy food? cut out the ?middle men?
Letter
Fairtrade
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:30:46 +0100: Win a Cafedirect luxury hamper
Cafédirect are giving you the opportunity to win a luxury hamper filled with a range of their delicious products and a Bodum cafetiere.
Wed, 21 May 2008 17:11:47 +0100: Tobacco: the next Fairtrade frontier
An ethically-sourced cigarette has been launched in the UK.
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:43:53 +0100: P&P Goes Mentor Mental!
Fancy becoming a P&P Group Support Volunteer? Here's what current volunteer Kristina has to say...
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:09:50 +0000: And the winner is...
Andrew Rosser, who gets -100 of Co-op vouchers.
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:59:03 +0000: St. Brendan's College get Fairtrade Fabulous
Students at St. Brendan's RC Sixth Form College do some fabulous campaigning around fairtrade fortnight.
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:17:31 +0000: Fairtrade Fortnight at The Coleshill School
Suzy Windridge from the Coleshill People & Planet group reports back on Fairtrade Fortnignt at her school.
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:09:19 +0000: Going Bathnanas
Hayesfield School Ethical Group hit the streets of Bath to raise awareness of Fairtrade
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:03:39 +0000: Fairtrade: can it really make a difference?
Nobody can deny the astonishing success of Fairtrade. And yet the majority of producers in developing nations remain disempowered, battered by market trends and biased trade rules, while the powerful countries and companies just get richer and richer. Kate Evans, York Uni P&P, writes.
Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:56:22 +0000: Chipping Campden P&P planning a Fairtrade Fortnight extravaganza
The group are planning to build on their coffee morning success with a full two weeks of Fairtrade madness.
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:01:22 +0000: Let out the Fairtade monkey within
Choca Monkey - the first Fairtrade computer game - has arrived!
Reuters: Health News
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:46:43 +0100: Smoking in movies seen to cause teens smoking
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:54:00 +0100: "Good" fat may be new weapon in obesity fight
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new understanding of the origins of brown fat cells -- the "good" kind of fat that burns energy and keeps us warm -- may lead to new treatments for obesity, two research teams reported on Wednesday.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:03:05 +0100: Preeclampsia raises kidney failure risk
BOSTON (Reuters) - Preeclampsia, which produces high blood pressure and other problems in 5 percent of pregnancies, can significantly increase the risk of kidney failure decades later, Norwegian researchers reported on Wednesday.

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:07:20 +0100: Vaccine refusals fuel measles outbreak
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parents refusing to have their children vaccinated against measles have helped drive cases of the illness to their worst levels in a dozen years in the United States, health officials reported on Thursday.

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:26:13 +0100: Lawmakers question Vytorin cancer risk data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two top Democratic lawmakers on Thursday questioned recent claims by Merck & Co Inc and Schering Plough Corp that incidents of cancer in patients taking their cholesterol drug Vytorin were a fluke.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:32:32 +0100: Consumers face rising medical debt: survey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. adults are struggling to pay their medical bills, tapping into savings accounts, home equity and credit cards to cover health care costs, according to a survey released on Wednesday.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:02:26 +0100: Statins don't cause cancer, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins neither cause cancer nor prevent it, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:13:11 +0100: Addiction drug reverses obesity in rats
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An epilepsy drug being tested for use in treating addiction can help obese rats shed weight, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:41:39 +0100: U.S. Medicare panel questions PET scan cancer data
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A U.S. Medicare advisory panel on Wednesday expressed doubts that industry-sponsored data on the use of PET scans to diagnose and evaluate nine cancers could apply more widely to other cancers.

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:28:04 +0100: Arsenic has firm link to diabetes in U.S. study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Arsenic, a naturally occurring poison and carcinogen found in ground water, is strongly linked to adult-onset diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.