Protein is back in the news this week with the launch of a new product, Cellper, a pre-digested protein product aimed at the malnourished.
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Erm, yes, this is the news that Häagen-Dazs, those makers of devilishly delicious ice cream have turned their attention to the problem of increasing waist lines and have produced ice cream containing vegetables.
Have you ever wondered while sipping on your donkey milk if maybe someone has adulterated it cow milk? Surprising, me neither, but this could be a serious problem for people with allergies to cow milk who have opted for donkey milk instead. Using Isoelectric Focusing and ELISA two Italian scientists…
If you suffer from peripheral artery disease (PAD), then dark chocolate is the Duracell of chocolates that will keep you going for longer, according to a paper published in the Journal of American Heart Association.
Coffee has many good properties: it helps a lot of us to start the day, to continue staring at that computer screen for another few hours, or as a nice drink following a big meal. But what you probably did not know was that coffee also helps to prevent tooth…
An interesting publication for you published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition earlier this month talks about the lack of animal protein for feeding the world’s growing population.
Following on from the last blog another obesity one for you. This time scientists have looked at obesity rates in men and women in developed and developing nations and have come to a worrying conclusion. Endocrine disrupters that mimic female hormones could be increasing the obesity rates in men.
Scientists have shown that a breakdown product from fermentable carbohydrates, acetate, travels from the gut to the brain when released and is believed to suppress hunger.
Apparently drinking a daily juice made from broccoli sprouts can detox your body of airborne pollutants. So says a paper published earlier this month in the journal Cancer Prevention Research and brought to our attention by the article in the Huffington Post.
Reported in the science magazine New Scientist last week, scientists from The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project have created an American chestnut that is resistant to the blight has all but wiped it out in most of the US.