by Cecilia Timm | Mar 10, 2014 | Interesting tid bits
Sugar is a difficult mistress. We know it’s bad for us be we keep going back for more. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) is weighing in, releasing a draft guideline recommending sugar make up less than 5% of total calorie intake. Since 2002 the recommendation...
by Cecilia Timm | Jan 23, 2014 | Interesting tid bits
The blame for obesity and bad health is steadily shifting from from fat to sugar yet we all find it incredibly hard to kick our dependancy on the sweet deamon. Lets face it, it’s just too easy to get your hands on some sugar. ABC’s Catalyst program breaks...
by Cecilia Timm | Jan 2, 2014 | Interesting tid bits
Professor Emily Banks, a leading public health physician and the chair of the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Medicines urged the ABC to not air part 2 of their investigation into Cholesterol and its apparent link to heart disease. Professor Banks expressed her...
by Cecilia Timm | Dec 19, 2013 | Interesting tid bits
The medical debate about cholesterol and its apparent link to heart disease is heating up. ABC’s Catalyst program ran Part 1 of a two part series last week challenging the perception that saturated fat and cholesterol are the demons in our diet. Have we been...
