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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Welching — err welshing — on Wilkie
Who owns the new Australian dietary guidelines?
For those who missed the announcement, Australia’s 24,000 GPs and 3500 dietitians will soon have a new weapon in their battle against big bellies and hard arteries, writes Geoff Russell.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The butter v margarine fight continues
Crikey readers weigh in on the benefits of butter and the asylum seeker debate.
Butter not margarine, s’il vous plaît
There seems no end to the conspiracy against healthy eating in the modern world, even by quasi-official associations — such as the Heart Foundation of Australia — who should know better, writes Michael R James, a research scientist and writer.
New dietary guidelines: looking beyond the headlines
When it comes to diet-related health claims, even the “good” newspapers are usually wrong, making recommendations about which foods people should eat (and avoid) that aren’t based on sufficient evidence, writes Warwick Anderson and Rachel Nowak.
Food fights: industry hungry for debate on regulation
The debate over food regulation is set to escalate. It’s a struggle between an industry working hard to protect profits and health advocates worried about obesity and disease, says Public Health Association CEO Michael Moore.
Are mums really united in their love of margarine?
The Australian Heart Foundation has found a new and even more devious way to entangle itself with the interests of the processed-food industry.
Healthy advice from the nutrition hierarchy? Fat chance
For the past three decades the NHMRC and Heart Foundation have been spending our hard-earned tax dollars telling us to eat less fat. For at least the past 10 years, that message has been demonstrably wrong.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The legal drinking age: stout Crikey readers whine
Crikey readers weigh in on the prospect of raising the drinking age to 21, the Green Loans scheme and Barnaby Joyce’s role as Opposition financial minister.
Soda pop not that soft: fizzy drinks linked to pancreatic cancer
It’s time to wake up, smell the (unsweetened) coffee and act on sugar before we sentence even more Australians to death by pancreatic cancer.
Why fructose-laden drinks when there’s a healthy option on tap?
In the name of getting enough water, Australia’s school canteens are selling kids a drink sweetened with 21g of pure fructose. When did we become a nation requiring constant hydration, anyway?
Ad self-regulator says 72% sugar is a simple serve of fruit
The Advertising Standards Bureau has ruled on my complaint about Nestle’s Fruit Fix advertising. The upshot: it’s perfectly ok to advertise a product which is 72% sugar as being equivalent to one serve of fruit.
American blokes advised to cut back on peanut butter cups
The American Heart Association has issued a new guideline recommending that adult men should eat no more than nine teaspoons of sugar a day. Too bad Australia isn’t copying them, writes David Gillespie.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Prevention pays
Crikey readers agree with Simon Chapman’s piece on preventative medicine, plus thoughts on Tony Fitzgerald, Tony Abbott, the Kyle and Jackie-O saga, and more.
Quacks, charlatans and witch doctors
Loretta Marron reports on the dangers of unregulated cancer treatment.
Eating red meat: like smoke from a hungry anus
Last Sunday’s Age carried two articles on red meat by Melinda Houston. Anybody wanting to write an advertorial should study this piece of journalism in detail, it’s brilliant, writes Geoff Russell.
The Crikey Register of Influence
Below we identify some of the associations between key opinion leaders and industry marketing or disease-awareness campaigns.It is published in the interests of fostering greater transparency and a more open debate about these links. It is not intended to denigrate the key opinion leaders themselves — their involvement in such campaigns is a reflection of their expertise […]
Alcohol IV: How much is safe?
It’s no wonder if Australians are confused about how much to drink, given the conflicting advice on offer.
