A diet rich in soft fruit such as lingonberries, bilberries and blackcurrants could offset some of the detrimental metabolic effects induced by a high-fat diet.
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Yes, believe it or not, some German craft brewers have started to experiment with fruity flavours in their beers. But before I have you all up in arms about the Reinheitsgebot (Purity law), they are adding nothing more to the beer than the normal water, malt, hops and yeast.
What is the most successful way to reward your children with a snack now and again without them turning into a snack junkie? That was the question (more or less) that a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) tries to address.
..for women at least. So says a paper to be published in the February edition of the Journal of Nutrition.
In rats at least it seem to be true. That was the cautionary news from a piece of research published in the Spanish journal Nutricion Hospitalaria.
Fraudsters beware! The Food Standards Agency (FSA) of the UK along with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are putting food declared as grown in the UK to the test.
Lactose intolerance should not stop you from enjoying the apparent health benefits of yogurt. Soy based yogurts are available in most health shops and even supermarkets. But now researchers from the Institute of Food Engineering for Development at the Polytechnic University of Valencia are coming up with yogurts based on…
A nice piece of research for those caffeine junkies among us, researchers have found that taking caffeine after studying some pictures allowed participants to correctly tell them apart from new but similar pictures more often than participants on a placebo or a lesser dose of caffeine.
A moderate sun tan makes you appear healthy and this effect can also be seen by eating food containing carotenes. This is the idea behind a piece of research by Dr Ian Stephen of the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.
Fish oil, I’ve blogged about it on numerous occasions (omega 3 to slow aging, omega 3 good but what about omega 6?, eat greens with your omega 3) and it is generally acknowledged that we should be getting more omega 3 (and some say less omega 6) in our diet.