Statins are very effective at reducing low density lipoprotein (LDL aka bad) cholesterol in our blood. But according to a paper published last month in the Journal of Functional Foods reducing LDL is only half the job, we also want to increase the amount of high density lipoprotein (HDL aka…
For as long as we have been brewing beer, animals have been fed the spent grain. But not for much longer if a new FDA rule is approved according to a blog on the Boingboing website.
In 1979 five children from the Netherlands were eating oranges when they started to complain about the bitter taste.
Rodney Whitchelo, a former Scotland yard detective caused Heinz to remove over £30 million worth of baby food from supermarket shelves back in 1989 in the UK after contaminating some of it with glass shards and razor blades.
A family including a heavily pregnant women have unwittingly eaten meat that was laced with the psychedelic drug. The meat was purchased from a Walmart store in Tempa, USA and the incident happened earlier this month.
..but that’s not all, avenanthramide (AVE), a phenolic compound found only in oats could also be doing its part in protecting the heart.
If you need to reduce your salt intake then don’t go it alone, start experimenting with herbs and spices in your food. That was the findings of research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology & Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity & Metabolism Scientific Sessions 2014.
A continuation of the meat mislabelling situation in the UK. Following the horse meat scandal and finding pork DNA in lamb burgers labelled as halal, Leicester City Council’s Food Safety Team have been testing food in their local area and the results are in.
Bisphenol-A or BPA has been the cause of great many debates about food packaging in the last few years.
With the traditional fasting period of Lent upon us before the big Easter egg gorge we decided to take a look at some various forms of fasting and what the scientists say are the consequences.
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