CHEW THE FAT

The Rake

CHEW THE FAT

The rake’s nutrition expert, Sarah Ann Macklin, travelled to Brussels with leading experts in science and medicine to urge the European parliament to tackle the obesity epidemic. Their message? Sugar, not fat, is the enemy.

While everyone was discussing whether or not to Brexit, I travelled to the European parliament with three of the biggest experts in British science and medicine to try to shed some light on how dietary guidelines are negatively impacting our population’s health. In our address, ‘Big Food and Big Pharma: Killing for Profit?’, we called for a complete overhaul of the current guidelines.