Vegetable consumption has reached a 50-year low in Britain as people shift towards ready meals, crisps, and chocolate, a report warns. The average person consumes 1kg of fresh and processed vegetables, excluding potatoes, each week, according to an annual family food survey. This represents a drop of nearly 12 per cent since 1974, when theContinue reading “Brits Swap Sprouts And Peas For Ready Meals”
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Labour Considers Banning Teenagers From Buying Energy Drinks
Labour is considering ideas to prohibit the sale of energy drinks to under-16-year-olds. Concerns over the effects on children’s health and education have led to consideration of a clampdown. The beverages may include a significant amount of sugar in addition to high caffeine content. Excessive intake by youngsters has been linked in studies to headaches,Continue reading “Labour Considers Banning Teenagers From Buying Energy Drinks”
Meeting Official Healthy Food Guidelines Will Cost The poor Half Their Disposable Income
Research shows that Britain’s most impoverished families would need to spend half their disposable income on food to meet Government healthy eating guidelines. Soaring food and drink prices have left numerous households struggling to afford the healthier alternatives recommended in the NHS’s Eatwell Guide. The Food Foundation has cautioned that rampant inflation has hit theContinue reading “Meeting Official Healthy Food Guidelines Will Cost The poor Half Their Disposable Income”
How Junk Food Manufacturing Has Persuaded Us To Eat Ourselves To Death
There are some frightening ways in which processed food suppliers are sliding mouthwatering but disease-causing extras into our munchables. So why are diabetes, obesity and hypertension figures still gyrating out of self-control? It’s not just a matter of limited determination on the part of the shopper and, a give the people what they desire viewpointContinue reading “How Junk Food Manufacturing Has Persuaded Us To Eat Ourselves To Death”
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