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New Ice Age = Frozen Veggie Age?

Ice Age Ice wall

Fruit and vegetables have found a new champion in the unlikely frozen shapes of the new gourmet art patrons The British Frozen Food Federation.

Algae Omega 3 could save the Sea

V Pure Algae - Vegetarian EPA DHA essential Omega 3 Fatty acids

Omega 3 rich Algae DHA and EPA could make fishing obsolete within 2 years

Nutritionists Bristol

Foods For Life London Nutritionists

London Nutritionists Foods for Life will be in Bristol City Centre for the Bristol Vegan Fayre on 31st May and 1st June. If you would like to see a harley Street nutritionist at less than normal Bristol prices please book early

Copenhagen / Cochrane Study on Supplements

London Nutritionist - Yvonne Bishop-Weston
National newspapers TV and Radio are today full of a study they claim shows supplements can increase the risk of mortality. Meta analysis is notorious for it's ability to neutralise findings of good studies , mix them up with other studies with completely different aims and produce inconclusive evidence. It's misleading to isolate vitamins and minerals, take them out of normal context and make judgements like this because, without ensuring an individual has a nutritional need and the correct levels of supporting nutrients, it could then lead to other deficiencies and subsequent problems. It would be questionable, very unusual and strange for a nutritional therapist to just advise taking vitamin E, Vitamin A, Vitamin C and selenium which is the basis for the Danish review.
There are always risks with self prescription. A nutrition therapist has to study for a minimum of 3 years and then continually update their knowledge to be granted professional insurance that allows them to practice and advise individual clients on their individual nutritional health needs.
However it's irresponsible to suggest, as the National papers have today, that supplements are bad for you.

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