If you want to reduce the chance of your tot (or small child to you non-English readers) of developing allergies then feeding them fish on a regular basis from an early ages seems to be the way to do it.
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Is it time to relax the restrictions on growing genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe? Owen Paterson, the UK Environment Secretary believes so. He is expected to talk about the issue in a speech next week saying that if we don’t embrace this technology we will be left behind in…
Carrots have some competition. A paper published in this months the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) looked into the role of vitamin B-12 and folic acid in developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Anthocyanins are powerful antioxidants that have been reported as having health effects against cancer, inflammation and infections to name a few. The problem is large quantities are needed to elicit these responses when tested in the lab and it is thought most of them are broken down before getting into…
This week in the Journal of the American Healthcare Association (JAMA), David Ludwig, MD, PhD of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston has written his viewpoint about fructose vs. glucose. So why all the fuss? Because the obesity epidemic is continuing…
“Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend” frozen berry and pomegranate mix sold by Costco could be responsible for the multistate Hepatitis A outbreak in the USA that has so far infected 61 people.
That is the reason behind a research project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in the Bavarian town of Freising, Germany.
That is the opinion of The Salt Reduction Seminar hosted by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). For the last 10 years, the FSAI has been working in conjunction with the food industry to voluntarily reduce salt in processed food items.
Those genetic tinkerers have been at it again. This time they have produced a purple tomato that has superior taste and longer shelf life.
If our last story about using flies and maggots to feed our livestock was turning your stomach how about feeding them protein recovered from poultry industry waste such as feathers instead?