Keime Inc dba Barry’s Vitamins conducts a US nationwide voluntary recall of Virility Max Dietary Supplement: Lot Number 10090571. Keime Incorporated announced today that it is conducting a voluntary recall of one lot of the companies dietary supplement product sold under the following name: Virility Max. The company has been…
John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, addressed Member States’ representatives (the High Level Group on Nutrition and Physical Activity) and stakeholders (the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health). He commended the achievements of governments and Platform members in addressing unhealthy diets and…
Levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) a common compound used in lining of tin cans and in bottles, were found to be almost 19 times higher in individuals who ate tinned soup compared to freshly prepared soup.
When dieting, it’s one thing to know you should probably stop eating, but quite another to feel that you have eaten enough.
Researchers based in Italy and the US have found that drinking a wild blueberry juice every morning for 6 weeks increases the number of Bifidobacteria (some of which are probiotic) in the gut.
Colon cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. In 2008, 1.24 million cases were diagnosed and 610,000 fatalities occurred. A new publication in BMJ brought together the results from 25 studies looking at effect of eating fibre from different sources, i.e. fruit, vegetable, legume and cereal on the incidence…
Eating a diet consisting of unprocessed foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts, oils, fish, poultry and lean meat was able to decrease cholesterol in two weeks by a level that takes 6 months with statins.
Researchers at Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, have developed a test that can detect pesticide build up in farmed fish. As demand for fish has grown, the fish meal used as fed has been replaced with soya, maize and rape which can contain pesticides.
There should be EU-wide mandatory nutritional risk screening. This is the call coming from leading policy makers, scientists, industrial representatives and insurance groups from across Europe ahead of the EU nutrition day tomorrow (10.11.11).
Giving children who have high haemoglobin levels baby food fortified with iron could adversely affect their development.

