Better Science, Better Food and Better Lifestyle was the eye- catching theme of a recent seminar organised by the Nutrition and Health Foundation, the Irish Business and Employers Confederation (Ibec) offshoot promoting health and wellbeing. While the promotion of better food in catering and better lifestyle through more physical activity were broadly covered, it is questionable whether better science was a true aim of the day. The keynote speaker, Swiss physiologist Prof Luc Tappy, presented what most attendees found to be a confusing summary of the role of fructose (which is sugar that occurs naturally, mainly in fruit, as opposed to sucrose, which is...
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