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Lucy Mecklenburgh shares love of eggs in new campaign

There’s a surprising new secret weapon in the food cupboard of celebrities, helping to keep them looking good and feeling great – the humble egg! Eggs are enjoying a renaissance as hot stars like Lucy Mecklenburgh have revealed them as their top ingredient for a healthy diet. Lucy, fitness...

Passport to health

A project conducted at Gatwick Airport, published in the January 2015 issue of Complete Nutrition[1], shows that workplace interventions can make a positive impact on employee health. The 12-week intervention trial, conducted among 35 shift-working security employees, included advice on...

New TV campaign for British Lion eggs

British Lion eggs will be back on TV in the New Year with their first major advertising campaign in a decade, encouraging consumers to use eggs to ‘make a meal out of anything’. The three month TV advertising campaign is part of a £1.5m marketing spend for 2015 and will see the return of...

Diet like a celeb with eggs

New year heralds the annual drive towards a healthy new you and a boom for the diet industry, yet it’s the humble egg that is fast becoming the fashionable diet food of choice. Eggs are the saviour of many a dieter, appearing in the recommended ingredient list for countless weight loss...

Cracking hangover cure

The Christmas period is all about over-indulging and going to parties until the early hours – then comes the downside of the morning after. Breakfast is a crucial start to your recovery and protein-rich eggs seem to be the choice of those in the know to speed up your return to health...

British Egg Week 2015 dates confirmed

The dates for British Egg Week 2015 have been announced as 5-11 October. More news will follow in due course. British Egg Week 2014 went viral, with celebrities and egg fans sharing ‘omelette art’ around the world, and the week itself trending on Twitter. The campaign highlighted the...

BEIS attends CPHVA exhibition in Birmingham

The British Egg Information Service exhibited at the Community Practitioners & Health Visitors Association annual conference & exhibition at Birmingham NEC on 5 & 6 November. There were approximately 1,000 delegates at the event who were health visitors, school nurses and community nurses...

Mums told ‘don’t avoid eggs’

Egg and soldiers back on the menu for pregnant women and babies Health experts are telling women not to avoid eggs when pregnant, nor to delay giving them to their babies. The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) says that emerging research suggests that eating eggs in pregnancy and weaning...

Countdown to British Egg Week underway

The countdown to this year's British Egg Week (6-12 October) is underway, with this year's theme, ‘eggs make a meal out of anything’, due to highlight the important role that eggs can play in helping to minimise food waste. British Lion eggs is already a proud supporter of the Love Food...

New research paper praises UK industry on egg safety

Further endorsement of the British egg industry’s success in tackling salmonella has been published in a new scientific paper in the Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The paper* cites a 99% decrease in human cases of Salmonella enteritidis between 1997 and 2011, following the...