ILsugar 02 jor 0407 031 Photograph: Peter GamlenIn 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long? by Ian LeslieRobert Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist at the University of California who specialises in the treatment of childhood obesity. Read More...
Nicholas Lezard's choiceFrancois Marie Arouet de VoltaireReviewA bestseller in the wake of Charlie Hebdo, this 18th-century criticism of religious violence is still relevant todayIn Toulouse in 1761, a shopkeeper’s son hanged himself in the family home. A rumour quickly went round the town that the son had been killed because he wanted to become a Catholic. The shopkeeper, Jean Calas, was a Huguenot, and the town was about to celebrate – and “celebrate” is the word – the 200th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre, when 2,000 Protestants were murdered, with maximum barbarity, by the town’s Catholics. Read More...
World newsUS counts cost of day without immigrants· Protests force firms to close and hit industry
· More than 1 million take to streets over new billOne of the biggest protests in US history unfolded across America yesterday as more than a million demonstrators took to the streets to protest against proposals to toughen immigration law.
From New York to Los Angeles and more than 50 cities in between, they streamed out in their numbers, waving US, Mexican and El Salvadorean flags. Read More...