Very many people living among us are suffering from significant malnutrition, as this report explains. In the UK, a country that throws away one third of all food purchased, there are currently more than 3m people either malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. The alarming part is that 93% of these patients are not in hospital but are [...]
People are pretty hopeless at guessing the energy content of their meals and snacks. They tend to wildly (optimistically?) underestimate how many calories are packed into even innocent items. In a recent UK survey, consumers guessed that a medium skimmed latte plus blueberry muffin contained 382 calories – the typical figure is 614! Why is [...]
Good news for consumer health usually spells bad news for Big Sugar, which attacked the World Health Organisation over its recommendation that sugar should form no more than 10% of diet calories. They threatened to lobby congress to withdraw USA funding for WHO. Such sweet people! Hopefully the organisation will prove strong enough to resist. [...]
