Panic Nation in the Daily News

Pick up a paper or turn on the television and every week there is another food or health scare. There is always somebody to tell you that you and your family are under threat from yet another harmless everyday activity.

Meanwhile, we are told that the food we eat, the air we breathe and the medicines we take are poisoning our bodies.

Unpick the myths we're told about food and health. Read the Daily News from Thursday as we serialise the PANIC NATION edited by Stanley Feldman and Vincent Marks in their attempt to set the record straight, to counter 'unfounded theory and specious argument'