Mark O'Briens Food and Nutrition Articles

Chemicals producing fat people?

Is it possible that some people being fat may have less to do with overeating and lack of exercise than we have been lead to believe, and more to do with the various chemicals they consume in their read more...

Coffee and health

We all love our coffee. Well I do, and the day does not really start until I have some caffeine in my system. Forgetting for a moment that being addicted to anything is hardly optimal, is it actuall read more...

Coke Zero banned

Coke Zero has been banned in Venezuela by the government citing concerns that it is harmful to health. All Coke Zero in Venezuela as of 31/10/09 was to be removed from shelves and destroyed due to c read more...

Eat to lose weight?

In our modern Western society it is quite common for people to be overweight with all the ramifications upon general health that this entails. We just love to eat. It seems, though, that it is not s read more...

GE food/fertility link

A recent study conducted by the University of Vienna and sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Health, Families, and Youth, and with potentially massive ramifications for the whole GE and agricorp i read more...

GE science deconstructed

Feeling happy Bill Gates has decided to spend his billions on saving the world? Isn't Bill the ultimate good guy? Well, maybe, and maybe not. Over the past 2-3 years Gates has teemed up with Monsa read more...

Soft drinks can seriously harm health

A preservative E211, known as sodium benzoate, which is in most soft drinks, pickles and sauces, has been implicated in some serious health problems. Sodium benzoate has already caused concern as wh read more...