• IN view of current theoretical claims about potential deaths due to air quality, I was interested to hear from Professor Graham MacGregor (The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4) that lives are very definitely and quantifiably at risk from salt and sugar in cheap processed foods.

These are, of course, the very foods that economically challenged families are forced to buy – to the great benefit of the international food industry.

This is a depressing fact which demands to be more widely explained although not as a way of denying people their treats.

However I was slightly cheered by Professor MacGregor’s dismissal of “rehydration” (the watchword of the bottled water industry) as “rubbish” which contributes only to the billions of bits of plastic currently swirling around the Pacific.

See http://pacinst.org/publication/bottled-water-and-energy-a-fact-sheet/

CHRIS FAGG
Gospel Oak