Health

School excludes six year old for eating mini cheddars at lunch

School excludes six year old for eating mini cheddars at lunch

A six year old boy has been excluded from his school for bringing in…..a bag of mini cheddars. Riley Pearson’s parents were called to a meeting at Colnbrook Church of England primary school after teachers said that a bag of mini cheddars, violated their school’s policy on healthy eating. The child’s parents, Nicola Mardle and Tom Pearson, were told in[Read More…]

DWP blames cancer woman for getting cancer

DWP blames cancer woman for getting cancer

The Department of Work and Pensions has told a terminally ill woman that she is to blame for getting cancer. A letter by Chris Nelson appeared on the social networking site Facebook told of how the DWP refused disability allowance to the woman because they claimed that she was responsible for contracting a rare form of bone cancer called Sarcoma,[Read More…]

Fracking has been linked to hormone disrupting chemicals in the water.

Fracking chemicals linked to infertility and cancer

Fracking has been linked to hormonal disruption and chemical infertility, new research has shown. Scientists at the University of Missouri have discovered that there is a high proportion of hormone-disrupting properties in water located near hydraulic fracturing drilling sites than in areas without drilling. The researchers also found that 11 chemicals commonly used in the controversial “fracking” method of drilling[Read More…]

Majority of NHS ‘has been privatised’

Majority of NHS ‘has been privatised’

More than 70 per cent of the NHS has been privatised, it has emerged. The NHS Support Federation, which opposes a competitive market in the NHS, said that 70 per cent of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were won by private firms. NHS reforms mean “qualified providers” can bid to provide clinical services, such as scans[Read More…]

First it was tobacco and now it is sugar

First it was tobacco and now it is sugar

Sugar now makes up the world’s largest killer. With a rise in obesity and diabetes, food chiefs have now intervened to ask big food co-operations to cut the amount of sugar they put in its industrialised food. Researchers have found that zero-fat yoghurts can contain five teaspoons of sugar, whilst Heinz tomato soup has four, and a Mars bar has[Read More…]