febrero 23, 2008

Health Warnings on Wine?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/yyhealth/
You and Yours - Health
BBC Radio 4



During the last years the alcoholism became a danger for younger people that doesn´t know the effects of drinking in excess. That´s why, on the last weeks on France a certain group of people began to request for health information on the bottles of wine as we can find on the package of cigarettes.
As a recomendation on the new they said that drinking is not exactly a dangerous habit until a person drink in excess that´s the main reason for the campaigners to ask about the warnings, because only a little part of the community knows about the danger and the risk, for example to the pregnant women. On the other hand the wine producers reacted showing to the public the wine´s benefits and argueing with the diference between alcohol and cigarettes.
In conclusion, the changes in the solds can be important if the people and the doctors doesm´t have good information about the alcohol but everytime a good warning can save some lifes and at the end everybody is free to decide what and how much is going to drink.

febrero 19, 2008

The dark history of the food cheats


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/yyhealth/
You and Yours - Health
BBC Radio 4

The new I listen is so interesting because is a presentation of a book that talks about food adulteration with a little view of the subject over the centuries.Nowadays is an important subject because sometimes we didn´t know if we can trust in our food, because we can catch an stomach illness or something worst.
But wich is the problem?
According to the book´s writter swindlers have tampered with our food throughout history. From the leaded wine of ancient Rome, to the food piracy of the 21st century. A clear evidence is a book of food adulteration that appeared on 1820. Food has been padded, poisoned, spiked, coloured, substituted, and faked, science and pollution could be the principal player in this story.They mentioned as an example coffee and sweets, because there´s a lot of worried parents that think that poisson sweets affected children behavior. It could be possible and the “guilty” is from the colors that the producers use to elaborate it, in the coffee they give the example of the milk with contaminate water.
The advice of the new and of these two examples teach us that we have to read the information of the package to know what we are eating, to protect ourselves. Because despite all the rules we can find cheaters in every market.