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UK Restaurants To Include Calorie Info On Menus

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 07:03 AM PST

Here in the UK, the government are encouraging restaurants to agree to include calorie counts on their menus.

But how effective is it likely to be?

The scheme is currently voluntary, but if companies do not co-operate, the government may pass legislation to enforce compliance.

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Correlation Studies Aren't "Junk Science," Especially in Food Science

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 02:04 AM PST

What is "junk science?" To me, after five years of reporting on health and diet news, it's any study backed by a group with an agenda, like dairy farmers saying full-fat milk has no health risks, or PETA insisting that a vegen diet is the only optimal diet for humans.

Those studies are tailor-made so that the results say exactly what the benefactors want them to say. That is junk science, not research which looks at a sample population and finds a certain eating habit (or trend) has a negative or positive effect on health, i.e. a correlation; hence the term "correlation study."

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