GUTS GLUED

According to nutritional toxicologist Dr Peter Dingle we're in the middle of a health crisis:

He said people should stop feeding children "toxic'' processed food. This included white bread and sugary breakfast cereals -- which "glued up their guts'', made them fat and led to diabetes and heart disease -- and artificially sweetened diet drinks, which were linked to cancer and depression.

Cancer, chronic digestive problems, diabetes, obesity, depression, suiciden and even cardiovascular disease were on the rise among young people, as were rates of ADHD and autism.

"Why, because we've focused on crappy advertising and marketing by companies,'' Prof Dingle said. "Food companies are killing our kids. This generation of kids will not only die at an earlier age, many will die before their parents and from illnesses associated with old age.''

Considering the way many of this generation of kids carry on, early death would not be unwelcome.