Intro: Google Blogger put this post behind a warning because the title includes the words ‘animal abuse’ (now changed as a consequence) but in this article there is no animal abuse whatsoever. The words are there but that is it. Typical of frightened, paranoid Google …
The Times reports on a study published online on the International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity website. The study title is: “Longitudinal effects of dog ownership, dog acquisition, and dog loss on children’s movement behaviours: findings from the PLAYCE cohort study.” That’s a …
The Times reports that Tops Day Nurseries, which has four thousand children in its charge across 32 nurseries in Hampshire and Dorset, has decided to feed its children wild-shot venison, which I understand is a first. They are working in collaboration with Eat Wild, which …
NEWS AND OPINION: The Sunday Times reports on the recovery of Emily Hand after her release as I Hamas hostage. She was held captive for seven weeks and has returned to Israel in an exchange programme between Israel and Hamas. Thomas Hand, her father, was …
A study found that if parents are grimacing when they eat their vegetables it can put off their children eating vegetables. On the opposite side of the coin, if a child sees their parents smiling when there are eating vegetables it does not necessarily encourage …
The standard of manufacturer of American sweets is lower than in Great Britain. There is a worrying development in Great Britain because you might have noticed that there are many American candy stores dotted around the country particularly in London where, frankly, they’ve been outlawed …
NEWS AND COMMENT: A-list celebrities who are animal advocates, namely Ricky Gervais, Twiggy, Sir Mark Rylance, Peter Egan, Amanda Abbington, Gemma Atkinson, the sailor Tracey Edwards, the television presenter Kirsty Gallacher, and the singer Shirley Kemp are urging the British government to ban children from …
A research project, conducted in France, has concluded that kids who live close to dense vineyards have a higher risk of contracting leukaemia because of the chemicals in the agricultural herbicides sprayed onto the vines. French campaigners who want a 150 metre no-spray buffer zone …
A study published in 1998 sheds some light on the incidence of emergency department treatment of dog bites in America. The researchers took the data from the 1992-94 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Centre for Health …
