It would appear that eating chocolate could lessen your risk of heart disease and stroke.
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Good news for all you nut eaters out there. Regular consumption of tree nuts and peanuts is associated with a lower chance of death.
That was the simple but important findings of a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition this month.
A variation on a theme we have already blogged about but one that is worth repeating. When eating foods rich in carotenes, for instance a salad containing tomato, carrot and peppers, add some fat to get the most out of it.
It has already been shown in the US that intake of dietary fibre is inversely associated with incidence of type II diabetes. Now this latest offering in the journal Diabetes confirms the same association in European diets too.
For all you chocolate lovers out there a paper that finally has the findings you would like to hear, consuming chocolate (albeit of the dark kind) can help you lose weight as part of a low carb diet.
Sometimes life just seems so unfair. Talking about two recently published papers, it seems that drinking chamomile tea can help women live longer, but for men exercise seems to be the way to go.
An interesting one for all those other parents out there, the bacteria in your child’s gut could be having an effect on their behaviour.
Eating between meals, a generation ago it was seriously frowned upon but in today’s world of eating on the go or at our desks it has become part of the norm. But what about teenagers, what should we give them if they are hungry between meals?
As we get older we should have more of an eye on our diets, and one aliment that can apparently be avoided or reduced by changes in our diet is age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a loss of vision in the centre of your field of view caused by damage to…