The sceptic: Diets

The Guardian

By Druin Burch

There's no bullshit like dietary advice. It starts off with a dumb observation that someone hasn't bothered to think through or an experiment so badly designed that it never stood a chance of revealing anything reliable. Then people who don't understand it - or who won't take the trouble to try - puff it up and it ends up getting spewed out as though it were an accepted truth. But today it's my excuse for being cheerful, for offering you at least a little bit of good news.

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2005 reasons to eat out

The Independent

After 12 long months of intensive research, reigning Restaurant Critic of the Year Terry Durack picks the big winners - and losers - from the British culinary scene.

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Hormone raises hope of victory in war on obesity

The Guardian

By Alok Jha, science correspondent

Scientists have discovered a hormone that suppresses appetite, raising hopes of new treatments in the fight against obesity, according to a study published today.
The hormone, named obestatin, halved food intake in rats and resulted in the animals losing a fifth of their body weight.

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