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Planning a pregnancy

Time to think about having a baby? Financial constraints, health, career and lifestyle choices and sheer timing can all impact on when or whether a woman decides to have a baby. If you think you’re ready – what next? The answer may seem pretty simple at first, but there are lots of variables, writes Susanna … Continue reading

Food labelling: a case of natural selection?

How many times do you pick up a food product in a supermarket that claims to be 100 per cent ‘natural’? Whether for health or ethical reasons, organic and natural products sell – and food manufacturers know this. Susanna Nelson looks at the reliability of the claims made on food packaging. Packaged and convenience foods … Continue reading

Healthy planet, healthy you

The vegan Eco-Atkins diet may be the answer for those of us who rank good health and environmental responsibility alongside weight loss when choosing a high protein diet, writes Susanna Nelson. The Atkins diet seems to allow dieters to have their cake and eat it too. It has demonstrated that a low-carbohydrate diet, with an … Continue reading

Report blames poor plumbing for UK farm misery

An investigation into the causes of the recent UK foot and mouth outbreak, which resulted in the slaughter of at least 60 cattle, yields the lesson that biosecurity and high-grade plumbing go hand in hand. Six years ago a foot and mouth epidemic in the UK crippled farms across the country, costing the economy an … Continue reading