Yep, it’s the stuff of pub legends, a paper has been published in the European Heart Journal that says it is good for you to have tipple. But before we get too excited what is it really saying? The authors followed over 14,500 people who were in their mid 50’s…
Osteoporosis is something we should all keep in mind. As we get older, our bones can get less dense and this can lead to increased chance of fractures.
Imagine this, you are a chicken retailer and a damning report is published that says nearly 60% of all raw chicken sold has a bacteria on it that can cause food poisoning. What do you do?
Nearly 4 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster most of the locally grown rice is fit again to eat.
Yes, our old friend Sulforaphane is back in the news again, this time in a paper trying to understand how it kills prostate cancer cells. According to the paper published in the journal Oncogensis, it has already been shown that sulforaphane can kill prostate cancer cells while leaving normal cells…
Craft breweries have been creating some interesting beers that are really growing in popularity these last few years.
Low calorie sweeteners (LCS), they are already the sweetness in our diet or zero drinks, and are starting to make an appearance is reduced sugar drinks such as Coke Life. But can they really help us to lose weight as part of a calorie controlled diet as written at the…
Fans of guacamole rejoice! Eating an avocado a day could help to lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol. Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association the paper describes how when people were fed either a low fat diet with no avocado, a medium fat diet with no avocado or…
…Eating a diet that contains high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) equivalent to the added sugar we can have in our diet is bad news for fertility and life expectancy, in female mice at least.
Put aside those high protein or cave man diets for a minute and listen to this. Eating high amounts of whole grain seems to lower total and heart disease mortality, at least according to a paper published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine yesterday.


