A soda a day keeps the doctor in pay: soft drinks and diabetes
Drinking one can of soft drink a day is linked to a 20% increase in the risk of developing diabetes.…
Author: Jodie R. Palacio
Strategies to cope with extreme heat
Heat is generated by the body’s metabolic processes and the surrounding environment. The skin then loses it through sweating and…
Self-regulation ads are not for children; they only benefit the food industry
You won’t be the only one who thinks it’s time for something to be done about junk food and children.…
There are no miracle diets or foods that can cure or prevent
This is due to the recent global outbreak of novel coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2). Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) efforts to dispel…
Plaid Cymru wants more doctors, but do we need them
The expenditure increase is unlikely to be offset entirely by their pledge to move “towards a paperless NHS that will…
Mary Poppins’ attack by Big Tobacco should backfire
In the print ads and websites, they ask “Do you like living in an nanny-state?” and explain that “the government doesn’t…
Diets and weight loss separating facts from fiction
Welcome to The science behind weight loss, a new Conversation series where we separate the myths about dieting from the…
How to sweeten strawberries without adding calories
I, along with other researchers at the University of Florida studied over 30 varieties of strawberries to find out that…
Cruise ships are floating petri dishes for gastro bugs
Cruises in particular are notorious for gastro outbreaks. In one study that looked at nearly 2,000 cruise ships docking Sydney, 5% reported…
How fast food is reinventing itself as healthy and caring
It is hardly surprising then that the global food and drink industry (also described by critics as “big food”) is…