Ummm…..snacks. We all love those tasty snacks but the hard reality is that they are typically packed with sugar, full of calories and a major contributor to the obesity crisis.

I’m rarely one to call up a graph, but this one is packed with goodness. It shows what percen...

Last week Irn-Bru manufacturer A.G.Barr announced plans to halve the sugar content from 10g per 100ml to just below 5g. Only a few months earlier LSR, the makers of Lucozade and Ribena announced a similar reformulation to below 5g per 100ml, as did Tesco’s on all 251 o...

In 2011, a landmark study demonstrated that it is possible for people to reverse type 2 diabetes by lifestyle change. Six years later, many people have reversed their diabetes, yet many health professionals and diabetes organisations maintain the line that it is a prog...

Diabetes is costing the NHS £10bn a year and is estimated to cost the wider UK economy £23.7bn every year. How much is diabetes costing your business?

Fact: Depending on the age, ethnicity and sedentary nature of your work force somewhere around 5-10% of them have diabe...

As mentioned in my last blog, I am fast approaching my 25th anniversary as a Type 1 diabetic.

Having been diagnosed in Sydney at the age of 12, I was immediately subjected to a 2 week boot camp in hospital and an intensive crash course in all the key skills I would need...

When I was 8 years old, I experienced something in my primary school classroom that would have a lasting effect on me for the rest of my life.

One day, a new boy joined my school and and was given a seat right next to me.   Midway through class he took out a machine the...

Our team join our friends at the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, Bristol City Council and the Bristol Sports to launch Sugar Smart in Britsol. 

You’ve all read that the NHS is in crisis, it is costing us more and more. Advertising to increase public awareness of diabetes could save the NHS billions.

We have notably increased mortality but not addressed morbidity, so we have an exponential rise in the numbe...

There's one thing that I would beseech everybody to do, it’s really simple.....

1. Get a piece string or a dressing gown cord, anything like that

2. Measure out a piece to the height of your body

3. Fold it in two

4. Put that folded piece around your tummy, level...

Last week I attended the Childhood Obesity Summit joining such notaries as the Chief Medical Officer, the Chair of the Commons Health Select Committee, the Chief Exec of the Advertising Standards , the top people on this from the NHS, Public Health England, and the spo...