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SUGAR TAX – Will the new sugar tax really tackle the obesity crisis?

It’s an announcement that has cheered many, not least the ubiquitous TV chef, Jamie Oliver. Within his 2016 Budget, Chancellor George Osborne has declared a sugar tax on sugar-sweetened soft drinks. Effective from April 2018, the money raised from the levy will plough an estimated £5xx million into children’s sports, particularly in primary schools. We […]

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22 March 2016

Why the latest healthy eating initiative won’t work – Dr Wheelock’s views

Our Chairman and founder, Dr Verner Wheelock, has been researching healthy eating and the effect of diet on illness and mortality for several years. He has come to the conclusion that, contrary to Government health guidelines, which advocate a low-fat diet as being beneficial to health, a diet low in carbohydrates and containing fat is

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15 October 2015

Celebrate seasonal produce during British Food Fortnight

It doesn’t seem two ticks since it was British Food Fortnight, last year (I must be getting old!) but here it is again! Running until 4th October, British Food Fortnight is a celebration of all that is great and good about enjoying food reared and grown in this country. As Chef Raymond Blanc says “There’s

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28 September 2015

Healthy Eating and BRC Audits – Verner Wheelock (pt 3)

25 years of healthy eating Anyone who knows Dr Verner Wheelock will be aware of his passion for and research into healthy eating. He had, of course, worked as Head of the Food Policy Research Unit at the University of Bradford prior to setting up Verner Wheelock Associates Ltd in 1990. On 10th May 1995

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17 July 2015

Live long and prosper – become a vegetarian! #nvw15 #veggie

Some studies have shown that people eating a plant-based diet tend to live longer and healthier lives than meat-eaters. In fact vegetarians have a lower incidence of cancer, especially colon, stomach, mouth, oesophagus, lung, prostate, bladder, and breast cancers. It’s reckoned that this is probably attributed to the phytonutrients present in plant foods, as well

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