Red meat study caused a stir – here's what wasn't discussed
Oct 09, 2019 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Accurate, consistent dietary advice seems increasingly hard to find. For instance, a widely reported study recently claimed that people dont need to reduce their consumption of red and processed meat for health reasons....
Government restrictions on labeling products as 'meat' aren't likely to help anyone
Oct 09, 2019 11:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Substitutes for traditional meat products have captured the attention of investors, the media and consumers. Plant-based meat options are showing up in grocery stores and on the menus at fast food chains like Burger King...
What is a healthy blood pressure?
Oct 09, 2019 11:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
More than 7m people in the UK have high blood pressure; it is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes, associated with one in four deaths. As many as 5.6m...
Why is it so hard for your doctor to apologize?
Oct 04, 2019 14:51 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Youve just undergone surgery. Somehow, a mistake was made. Perhaps the preparation was inadequate or perhaps there was miscommunication. The result is that you were harmed when you expected to be healed. Hurt, angry and...
The vegans are coming! What's fuelling the interest in plant-based eating?
Oct 04, 2019 14:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Between the rise of plant-based sausages and veggie burgers that bleed, vegan protesters at supermarkets, and Disney adding hundreds of vegan items to its theme park menus, veganism is in the news. Not to mention the woman...
How to talk to your teenagers about drugs
Oct 04, 2019 14:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The UK has seen a sharp increase in teenage drug use in the last few years: the NHS reports that 37% of 15-year-olds have used drugs, and that deaths resulting from drug use are at their highest since records began in...
3 questions about vodka, answered
Oct 04, 2019 14:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Towards the end of Ian Flemings spy novel Dr. No, James Bond orders a vodka dry martini Shaken and not stirred please. The novel was published in 1958, at the height of the Cold War. But four decades before the Berlin...
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