How to eat well: Beware brand extension

In the age of the savvy consumer, brands offer a shorthand way of knowing what you are buying. Familiarity allows us to make a quick decision to purchase based on what we understand about the brand’s values, such as quality, consistency, provenance or history.

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How to eat well: Sugar? I never touch the stuff

I am often asked what I eat, but rather than list everything, I find that it easier to say what I don’t eat.
Firstly, as I was born with coeliac disease, an intolerance to gluten, I can’t eat wheat, barley or rye. I have an unpleasant reaction, one that I will gloss over in print, to allium, especially garlic, raw onions and chives, so those are out too.

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Defibrillator drive takes off

A national drive to provide lifesaving equipment to Jewish organisations has taken its first “small steps”. At the same time, a defibrillator is to be given to every primary school in Liverpool after the death of a pupil at the city’s King David Jewish High school.

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Fight to secure funding for gene-flaw tests

Jewish organisations have mobilised against a potential threat to state funding for screening for the fatal genetic disease, Tay Sachs.

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How to eat well: When bacteria is good for you

When I started my career as a nutrition practitioner in 1997, clients consulted with me for advice on a variety of health issues ranging from joint problems to weight loss. In those days, cases of bloating were few and far between, but 15 years later, they are so widespread that they have become the number one reason for seeking nutrition advice.

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£9 million NHS centre to serve Charedi community

Salford’s Charedi population is to be served by a £9 million NHS medical centre due to open by the end of 2013.

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Give me my sperm back, says donor

An Israel woman has filed a petition at the Supreme Court against the Health Ministry in an attempt to regain access to five units of sperm from a man who now regrets his donation.

The woman, whose name has not been revealed, is the mother of a two-year-old daughter who was conceived artificially using the donor’s sperm.

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Healthy times for Holland and Barrett head of non-food, Emma Cockerill

Europe's leading health-food chain are on an ambitious expansion drive.

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