http://www.thechip.org.uk/index.php/site/index/ Rob Lyons is writing a book about how society sees food both as a threat and a panacea. The aim of this website is to comment on food-related stories in a similar vein. en paniconaplate@robertlyons.co.uk Copyright 2012 2012-05-16T10:42:20+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/223/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/223/#When:10:42:20Z The idea of making us pay more to change our behaviour is a dumb one. health 2012-05-16T10:42:20+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/222/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/222/#When:09:37:06Z Withholding healthcare from the obese and smokers is a pretty grotesque attempt to strongarm everyone into the so-called Good Life. health 2012-05-01T09:37:06+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/221/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/221/#When:11:20:12Z During a recent talk I gave at Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, a recurring theme was whether it was dangerous to tell people ‘eat what you want’. I think it’s dangerous to allow the state to dictate our eating habits for us. 2012-04-28T11:20:12+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/219/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/219/#When:11:13:12Z There is certainly a cacophony of nutritional and food advice being spewed forth today. But far from cutting through the proverbial, two recent books simply add to the noise. ethical living, health 2012-04-27T11:13:12+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/220/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/220/#When:11:16:33Z It’s one thing for the celebrity chef to have opinions about how we should eat. It’s another when he now has such a fattened sense of self-importance that he thinks he has the right to lecture elected politicians. health 2012-04-24T11:16:33+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/218/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/218/#When:13:11:50Z We’ve been led to believe that fruit juices are nutritious, healthy options. A glass of orange juice is one of your ‘five-a-day’. But is it really superior to fizzy pop? 2012-04-17T13:11:50+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/217/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/217/#When:11:52:47Z US supermarket Safeway is the latest company to announce it will phase out ammonium hydroxide-treated lean beef trimmings from its ground beef. But the furore around this product shows the destructive consequences of allowing anti-industry prejudices to get in the way of sound policy. health 2012-03-22T11:52:47+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/215/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/215/#When:12:05:34Z A speech given by His Royal Hystericalness in Washington in 2011 has now been turned into a small book - which is getting oodles of praise from the kind of foodie eco-activists who share his fearful, anti-progress outlook. environment, food security, health 2012-03-16T12:05:34+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/216/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/216/#When:12:11:38Z A new study from the Harvard Institute of Public Health has been widely claimed to prove that red meat and processed meat cause ill health. It would be more honest to admit that the study tells us nothing of the sort. health 2012-03-14T12:11:38+00:00 http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/214/ http://www.paniconaplate.com/index.php/site/article/214/#When:21:34:39Z Are we going to carry on getting fatter and fatter, as many assume - or are there signs that the obesity ‘epidemic’ is levelling off? health 2012-03-10T21:34:39+00:00