The Australian Heart Foundation has found a new and even more devious way to entangle itself with the interests of the processed-food industry.
Australian Heart Foundation
The sugar bomb is ticking away dangerously
The line-up of Heart Foundation tick-approved products will now include some of the highest sugar breakfast cereals on sale in Australia, writes David Gillespie.
Heart Foundation tick and Coles tick go against the grain
The Heart Foundation is getting its undies in a twist about Coles using a tick on its branding. But consumers might be healthier if they let the Coles tick guide their purchases.
Jack Marx: It’s my body and I’ll kill it with cigarettes if I want to
Jack Marx pens an open letter to the The Heart Foundation: hands off my smokes!
Fruit juice: a nutritious way to get extremely fat
A glass of apple juice is no better for you than a glass of Coke — the average soft drink is 10% sugar and so is the average juice. Drinking fruit juice is just a nutritious way to get extremely fat.
Heart attack debate not weighted in favour of the shake
Why would Nestle start spruiking a shake diet to lose weight, which has a known cause of heart disease as one of its main ingredients? Sounds like a conspiracy for getting fat people to have heart attacks.
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.
Sugar, heart ticks and a little note from Warren
My piece about the Australian Heart Foundation last week inspired quite a few folks to plunge electronic quill into digital inkwell and dispatch missives in my general direction, writes David Gillespie.
The sugar fix that earned a Heart Foundation tick
Why is the Australian Heart Foundation handing out ‘ticks’ to confectionery, asks David Gillespie?
