According to the Netmums website, over 100,000 women a year are being conned into paying money for useless fertility treatments.
A survey of 2,000 women found that one in three of those trying to have a child were so desperate that they spent over £500 on bizarre treatments. As well as acupuncture and aromatherapy, many turned [...]
It wasn’t so long ago that we reported the academic study that found that Ginkgo biloba had no effect whatsoever on memory, despite all the claims made for it.
Now another study finds that people taking placebos which they believe will help their memory see a real improvement. Dr. Sophie Parker of Victoria University in New [...]
THE SWINE FLU “PANDEMIC” TURNS OUT TO BE NOTHING OF THE SORT“All of humanity is under threat”, said World Heath Organisation director-general Dr. Margaret Chan in April 2009 as the WHO, reacting to H1N1 virus – swine flu – raised its alert level from phase 4 to phase 5. The UK Government’s Chief Medical Officer, [...]
A pair of American high school students working on a project using DNA analysis inadvertently uncovered a startling degree of outright fraud involving expensively-priced food items.
New York City high school pupils Matt Cost and Brenda Tan carried out a science project to see what sort of everyday items carried decipherable DNA. With the assistance of [...]
The millions of people who take ginkgo biloba to keep their memory sharp are wasting their money, according to a new study.
Holland and Barrett claim that, “Gingko biloba is one of the oldest living tree species, dating back to over 300 million years. Ginkgo helps to maintain memory with age decline and to preserve cognitive [...]
Most wine bottle labels say “contains sulphites” but, as well as grapes, there are plenty of other things in there too. How would we know, though? Winemakers may shove in anything up to 50 additives and preservatives without giving us the slightest clue what they’re done.
Among them might be not only enzymes, sugar, tannins and [...]
While researching Complete and Utter Zebu, we came across a Japanese product called Diet Water. We found hilarious the idea that special water could help you lose weight more quickly than the ordinary stuff. After all, water doesn’t actually contain any calories. Japan, however, is famous for having products that seem utterly bizarre to us [...]
According to Ohio University researchers, every American eats about “a pound or two of insects every year…ground up into tiny pieces in such items as strawberry jams, peanut butter, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, frozen chopped broccoli, etc.” The FDA regulates what they call “filth” in food. It permits, for instance, one maggot or five fly eggs [...]
Kudos to Marks & Spencer for becoming the first major chain in the country to give the full facts about the origins of its diary produce, matching its policy on fresh fish and meat.
A couple of weeks ago The Sunday Telegraph, in its campaign for honest food labelling, revealed that more cheddar was now [...]
Farming Today’s series on the problems of misleading food labelling continued today with a look at cheese, and in particular cheddar. It seems that more cheddar now comes into the UK from Latvia than is produced in the Cheddar Gorge itself. Other so-called cheddar comes from Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and Australia, as well as [...]
Radio 4’s Farming Today is this week looking at misleading food labelling. Not being natural early risers, we admit we only caught this later on iplayer. However, this is an area rife with Zebu and the outrageous and deceitful way in which food can be presented to the public deserves highlighting.
Unlike The Today programme, Farming [...]
Appalling though our MPs’ behaviour may be, at least they haven’t tried doing what German politicians have done. According to Time, German MPs, civil servants and the military are to get a swine flu vaccine, Celvapan, which has relatively few side effects. The rest of the population will be getting Pandemrix, a vaccine which is [...]
One of the reasons we started writing Complete and Utter Zebu was a story, two years ago, about two chains of pubs, Hungry Horse and Weatherspoon’s, who were found to be selling “British steak” that turned out to be no such thing.
A third of samples sent for DNA testing from Hungry Horse and two-thirds from [...]
Last week, The Sunday Telegraph ran a piece about “spankingly fresh” Pret a Manger sushi that was actually imported frozen from Chile. Today, they go gunning for Pret again, this time over “fresh” chicken sandwiches that are made with frozen meat from Brazil, a little odd for a company boasting of using only “fresh, natural [...]
“Our sushi is delivered every day, spankingly fresh.” What would you assume from that claim on Pret a Manger’s website? Probably not that it is farmed salmon trout from Chile, which has been frozen and sent 7,000 miles by sea to the UK, where it’s prepared and packaged.
Today’s Sunday Telegraph reveals that the fish farms [...]
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