The myth of ‘real food’
At the Abergavenny Food Festival last weekend, I took the opportunity to have a pop at the eco-friendly, locavore, organic, small-is-best food snobs. Here’s an expanded version of my comments.
read on...Testing the low-carb hypothesis
The question of what causes us to become overweight and to develop type-2 diabetes is a very important one for our times. Now a leading US science writer and author is putting his reputation where his mouth is.
read on...These control freaks should just tuck off
The Tuckshop Taliban is peeved that its healthy-eating mania isn’t very influential in new academy schools. Good.
read on...The 87 per cent fat diet
Not an article, just a ‘muse’. This study from 2011 looks at the possible reversal of kidney damage when consuming a high-fat diet. Is it possible in humans?
read on...Totnes: local cappuccino for local people
Backward campaigners trying to prevent Costa coffee from opening a shop in the Devon market town should wake up and smell their own hypocrisy.
read on...Something good to chew on, for a change
In his new book, Mike Gibney aims to ‘challenge food controversies’, sprinkling a large pinch of salt over the claims of food fearmongers.
read on...Exposing the myths about local food
Food activists claim that ‘local’ food is more sustainable, secure and nutritious. As Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu demonstrate in The Locavore’s Dilemma, local-food promoters couldn’t be more wrong.
read on...Food panics and science reporting
When it comes to food, journalists and reporters are far too keen to fill themselves up on a diet of fear and hype.
read on...How did school meals get to be so important?
Another government initiative to improve school dinners? Don’t officials have better things to do with their time?
read on...Martha Payne: how adults used a little girl to promote their own agendas
Did the food puritans who co-opted a Scottish schoolgirl for their cause even bother to read her school-meals blog?
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