Tag: Public Health England

A steady degradation of our food supply system

We can see something is wrong with the food system, and that things have been getting steadily worse over the last couple of decades or so, not least from the seriousness of rising cases of diet-related morbidities (cruelly exposed...

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Food System Transformation #7: Loaves don’t grow on trees

The rationale behind writing the last two blogposts, #5: The scale needed for our five-a-day and #6: The fresh produce supply chain was because many (but not all) the nutrients we need come from fruit and vegetables. But nutrients...

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Coca-Cola ingredients: High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) & sugar

A standard 330ml can of coke contains no nutrients other than 139kcal-worth of energy. A McDonald’s ‘standard’ coke, however, is 950ml and contains 400kcal, a fifth of our daily energy requirement. My understanding is that there isn’t any high fructose corn...

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Panel of Experts

We're delighted with the response we've had from eminent people to join our Panel of Experts. So far, the Panel is six-strong, and we're recruiting a few more people to join them.

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