It is funny to think that we are the only species on this world that has members that enjoy spiciness in our food. Indeed, the point of the capsaicinoids released by the plants is to deter herbivores while allowing birds, that do not feel the heat to eat the seeds…
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.
In today’s blog we are talking beer spoilage or spoilage of the wort, the beer before the yeast has turned it to, erm, beer.
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…
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