Plans are to be unveiled today to turn London's massive Olympic Stadium into an enormous algal swamp following the 2012 Olympics as part of a new health and sustainability scheme.
Veganism became a mainstream trend this year. More demand, new products, greater interest, even world banks, governments and world health organisations agree it's a good idea to go vegan at least once a week. A new book out for Christmas makes a healthy vegan diet so easy it seems normal.
The 9th September 2009 seemed the perfect date to launch a campaign by a consortium of different groups and companies to tackle Croydon’s emergency health situation.
As part of the National Vegetarian Week celebrations, tibits restaurant in London is hosting a Great British Battle of the Bangers. Journalists are invited to vote on five different vegetarian sausages (including the McCartney family Sausage) in a blind taste test. Despite the McCartneys healthier recipe they are having to battle for shelf space in the supermarkets.
None of the usual A list paparazzi plagued celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham, Britney Spears, Madonna, Avril Lavigne, Bono from U2 , Kate Moss nor even Sir Paul McCartney have been nominated in this years ethical oscars for 2008, having all been snubbed, along with many other celebrities.
Any company, health food manufacturer or business service interested in new demographics needs to mark this health food trade show exhibition and food network festival of food in their diary and review their business ethics. The future of the LOHAS driven food industry starts here in the UK
A Harley Street Nutrition expert has challenged a BBC experiment that fed athlete Colin Jackson a vegetarian diet that was lower in protein than neccesary. Jackson complained he lost power but London nutritionists Yvonne Bishop-Weston and Gareth Zeal say it may have been good TV but it wasn't sound science.