Should there be taxes on junk food? Denmark says yes, so do I
As I’m not a drinker or a smoker, I secretly feel a bit smug when the budget gets announced and the price of cigarettes and alcohol gets the inevitable hike. Don’t hate me. It’s not that I want people...
View ArticleIs diet really the latest “four letter word”?
Today, The Independent published a story entitled “Mummy, will I get fat?” about the very real problem of childhood eating disorders and body image problems, and the factors that cause them. But as I...
View ArticleReally? We aren’t tired of asking the wrong questions about body image and...
Photoshop. It’s the story that won’t die. So when the American Medical Association spoke out recently against the use of photoshop in advertising, claiming that the alterations commonly seen can...
View ArticleToo much choice to blame for obesity say researchers. Really? Not just too...
Here I was thinking that the obesity epidemic was down to the fact that people ate too much. But that’s not so, according to an editorial due to be published in the American Journal of Clinical...
View ArticleThis is why you’re fat : A series of essays about the big fat elephant in the...
As mentioned on the latest BodyGeeks TV, a recent holiday to Florida got me thinking about the issue of obesity. Why is it so common? Why is it on the rise? In short, why are people eating themselves...
View ArticleNewsflash! : Skinny models not to blame for kids’ eating disorders
Finally! For a while now, I’ve been making the point that you really can’t blame a small percentage of women, who every sane person I’ve ever met agrees looks horribly unhealthy, for the problems with...
View ArticleThis is why you’re fat : The internet
We all love the internet, the fact that you’re reading these words kind of makes that point. Which is why, over the past decade or so, the internet has become the primary place that many of us interact...
View ArticleNewsflash : Access to alcohol increases risk of underage drinking and violence
I see a lot of news about health issues in any given day, so when I saw a report yesterday that the number of shops selling alcohol in a given area had been linked by “researchers” to an increase...
View Article5 things your personal trainer really won’t tell you
Let’s just be clear, your personal trainer isn’t keeping secrets from you. We really do want you to lose weight, get fitter/stronger, or achieve whatever else it is that you’ve come to us for. We feel...
View ArticleAlternative medicine, what’s it an alternative to?
During my travels around the internet, I happened upon this comic from the always awesome XKCD. I too have noticed a worrying trend recently, which sees homeopathic medicines placed on the same shelves...
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