Articles by Al G Smith:

The Ongoing Food Coloring Controversy in the UK (NewsTarget) The newspaper and TV reporters in the U.K. were going 'red-in-the-face' with excited denunciations of the negative health impact of certain food colorings classified using the European E-number system recently. The U.K. Food Standards Agency...

It May be Nit-picking but is the News Monkeying with Our Mental Health? (NewsTarget) Not that I want to sound as if I am a 'nit-picker' but it is sad that Homo sapiens appear to have acquired such a jaundiced view of the world that they can no longer see the beauty and innocence of Nature. In this respect it was troubling,...

No Such Thing as Bad Cholesterol: Dispelling the Marketing Myth (NewsTarget) Cholesterol seems to be one of those things that strikes fear into the hearts of many, so to speak. But is the reputation that this oily substance has acquired truly deserved? What is certain is that the 'little knowledge' that the media...

Making a New Year's Resolution? How About Changing Your Mindset (NewsTarget) It seemed appropriate to write an article about making New Year's resolutions. By coincidence as I was putting the article together it came to my attention, due to a chance viewing of a TV advertisement, that a major chemist chain (that's...

Why Westerners Are the Wastrels of the World (NewsTarget) Here in the UK it has been time for a particular story to 'do the rounds' of the media once again in recent days. This is a news item that has cropped up in major media once or twice a year in the last half decade (a quick search of the...

Make it a Merry Less-Toxic Christmas This Year (NewsTarget) It's Christmas morning. You know, the day that you've been working towards for the last two months. The kids are gathering around the Christmas tree eager to open their presents. Maybe even you and your loved one are 'kind of' looking forward...

Silent Extinction: Complacency as a Global Epidemic (NewsTarget) Two stories announced across the various news media this week may signal the fact that the "end of the world" - at least as we know it - has come leaps and bounds closer. The first item begs the question: What have the Nendo Tube Nosed Fruit...

To Combat Obesity, Find Thinner Friends (NewsTarget) Obesity is again vying with 'climate change' as the most prominent 'long-term human survival issue' discussed in the British media. Recent news items have been precipitated by emerging statistics showing that in the last 5 years the number...

Is World War lll The Solution To Obesity Problems? (NewsTarget) Recent announcements in the press have confirmed the declining state of health and increasing obesity statistics in the UK. It is now clear that we were fitter, slimmer and healthier 50 plus years ago. Indeed no such thing as 'obesity statistics'...

Must Organic Also Be Ethical? (NewsTarget) Recent news about one aspect of the rapidly growing organic food marketplace in the UK has led to expressions of concern amongst those who believe that ethics should be an integral part of the definition of the term 'organic'. The sales...