When the government is insisting that the lights won’t go out, there will be enough food, and not to panic as there is quite enough petrol to go round, you have to why we are having such a conversation. We are not victims of chance. We’re heading into the winter of a ‘perfect storm’: unaffordable… Read more
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Food
‘Mere’ competition to Aldi and Lidl?
I am late to this – I confess I did not realise they had already opened – but MERE is a Russian discounter and the Grocer has interesting details. (Open the link in private mode if it doesn’t work initially). This is no frills with a vengeance and described as “amazing value for money”. The… Read more
Going to Man City for the coffee – and the cup
I spotted this appealing story about edible coffee cups – apparently made from an ice cream wafer type material produced so as to withstand the heat – for the first half anyway…. An intriguing, original idea though while BioBite’s slogan may be ‘turn your coffee into a treat’, I confess I’ve never really felt that… Read more
Public Health Collaboration
I’m delighted to report that my favourite Cardiologist (I’m sure we all have one…) has created, rather similarly to Independent Sage, an Independent Public Health England. According to the ‘i’ it is called Public Health Collaboration and chaired by cardiologist, Dr Aseem Malhotra – the article in the ‘i’ states: Public Health Collaboration chair Dr… Read more
Brexit just keeps on giving….
A recent article in the Grocer points out that further border controls for incoming food and drink will be in place from October onwards. Yes Brexit is still not done. Indeed just a look at the titles of recent articles shows how very fragile food supply chains have become…. The article points out: Of all… Read more
Obesity helps Covid
Who knew? This new report is even peer reviewed and they point out a worrying correlation that has long been suspected. Essentially, in summary: Across 168 countries, for every 1% increase in obesity prevalence, the mortality rate for Covid-19 was increased by 8.3%. Additionally, higher median population age, greater female ratio, higher Human Development Index,… Read more
Business now says that Brexit is inflationary
Asda has rather let the cat out of the bag in requiring its suppliers to accept a 5% increase in transport charges for Asda’s collection from them. The Grocer says that while Tesco gave twelve week’s notice – Asda gave just 30 days notice, of a price hike. But what is especially interesting is that… Read more
The so called colonel can only apologise for the democratic ‘will of the people’…
After posting ‘Fat News’, I spotted this from Kentucky Fried Chicken: Apart form the fact that their frying is in seed oils is exactly the wrong sort of oil, being both unsaturated and unstable, they make no mention of Brexit. They probably don’t want to upset the Brexiters… If there are any believing Brexiters left,… Read more
Fat news
In reply to this tweet: Alan Watson@DietHeartNews, replied in a way that was highly informative – and was for me a lightbulb moment! “Saturated” means chemically stable – nothing else! A fatty acid is saturated when all available carbon bonds are occupied – satisfied – with hydrogen. Saturates resist rancidity and free radical oxidation [which… Read more
‘Living with Covid’ probably means dying sooner of something else
This was an interesting tweet from a Dr Kelly from the University of Queensland and summarises what most of us who are not health professionals (or at least me) have never thought of: So the government suggestion of living with Covid from now on is possible only if you revise your health provision to include… Read more