health
Public health adopts the missionary position
From school meals to smoking, health campaigners demand ever more regulation of our lives – and it’s our personal independence that is being shafted.
read on...jIs it time to restrict fast-food takeaways?
From the spiked plus column, ‘Arguing the toss, spiked style’, a pub-style debate about restricting fast food for our own good.
read on...jThere’s no sugar-coating this tax
No, sugar is not the new tobacco
A recent edition of Channel 4’s current-affairs show Dispatches was heavily sprinkled with prejudice and misinformation.
read on...j10 myths about sugar
Sugar is delicious. We should not allow anti-sugar zealots to take away our right to enjoy it.
read on...jObesity’s worse than we thought? Bullshit
The claim that more than half of Britons will be obese by 2050 flies in the face of the data.
read on...jPoor people are getting plump? Good
Labelling GM foods is a bad idea
Defusing the ‘heart disease timebomb’
The myth of an obesity timebomb
Children are healthier and happier than ever before, whatever well-paid scaremongers might claim.
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