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I feel sad for the white potato. Having been a massively important part of our diets for generations and the most important source of vitamin C in the UK, they are now often put on the ‘bad food’ list. However, the sweet potato is having a ball, hailed as a ‘super food’ and regularly featuring […]

It’s fashionable to blame sugar for the growth in obesity and for many of the other health problems we encounter as we age. Many of the people who give nutrition advice are now concentrating on sugar, recommending we should radically reduce the amount in our diets. For me this advice should include being cautious of […]

Mars used to have the advertising slogan “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play” and was regularly recommended as a sports snack or even a meal replacement. Now advice given to junior sports teams almost always warns against eating chocolate bars, recommending “energy bars, flapjack, muesli bars or granola” instead. There are a huge array of […]

If you believe the headlines sooner or later eating sugar is going to kill you. Is this really true ? Surely we have been eating sugar for generations…… What is sugar? Sugars are the building blocks of all carbohydrates.  Monosaccharide sugars are the simplest of all carbohydrates containing just six carbon atoms, twelve hydrogen atoms […]