Vegans rule so butt out
BEING a vegan is now officially more cool than being a smoker.
Two thousand youngsters were asked which was cooler and 44% said vegan.
Only 14% said smoking, while the rest didn’t think either was cool.
The study also revealed that almost a quarter of 18 to 24-year-olds have turned vegan in the past year.
More than a third – 35% – are on the hunt for a vegan partner and one in three said they would try going vegan as it looks impressive to others.
Paul Brown from the fresh food brand BOL Foods, which carried out the study, said: “Love these results.
“The ever-increasing global interest in a plantbased lifestyle can only be a good thing for both people and planet.”
A MUM who lost her five-year-old daughter to a deadly form of childhood cancer has slammed the NHS for not doing enough.
Tiny Eva Giles was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) – a brain tumour for which there is currently no cure – and died months after being finally diagnosed.
Mum Emma says they had to fund Eva’s treatment to extend her life as it was not available on the NHS. She branded the system “unfair”, and says it means poorer families lose out. Emma has now started a campaign to persuade the Government to recognise DIPG as a condition worthy of more funding, claiming it is overlooked because it is seen as a “lost cause”. She said: “When we were told Eva’s diagnosis, the words that immediately followed were, ‘There’s nothing we are going to be able to do, there’s no treatment’. And to me, that just is not good enough. “Don’t get me wrong, the NHS who cared for us went above and beyond – there’s some amazing, amazing people working in the NHS. “But when there are treatments that you can actively pay for privately, and the NHS is saying ‘no sorry, you cannot get them from us’, there is something wrong with the system. “The awful truth is, the richer you are, the better your chances of living longer.” Emma said she knows there is “no cure” for DIPG at present, but there are treatments which may allow children to live longer. She added: “We are one of the lucky families, if you can call us that, because all the way along, Eva was in little pain. “She was able to live a relatively normal life up until the final death.
“It is a horrifically cruel illness but it makes it hard to accept, when you see her playing with her brother and sister, she essentially has a death sentence.
“I could not accept being told there was nothing we could do. I threw myself into research.”
Doctors told Emma and husband Dean that they were “better off” not re-mortgaging their home to fund experimental treatments abroad because there were no known long-term survivors of the illness.
Eva had more than a dozen rounds of radiotherapy to try to shrink the mass, but doctors warned the tumour was likely to grow back.
Her mum said: “They were trying to be realistic, but I was so angry.
“You hear this awful phrase, ‘Go home and make memories’, which I despise. I saw it as giving up.”
They searched worldwide for alternative treatments but Eva died in April 2017.
A spokesman for East Kent Hospitals said: “We offer our heartfelt condolences to Eva’s family. Eva’s GP referred her to our children’s ward and a suspected brain tumour was diagnosed that day.
“We referred Eva to the specialist Royal Marsden Hospital, where Eva was found to have the rare, incurable condition.”
Emma is speaking up for other sufferers in the hope of bringing about a change in NHS funding.
In the meantime the family has launched a charity – Eva’s Angels – providing breaks for those affected by any childhood cancer.
“Any ray of light we can give at a dark time, we want to,” Emma said.
See evasangels.org. weeks before her