Surprising news from the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes held in Barcelona at the end of last month.
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…and the rest of us can do it too. Those helpful lot at the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have made an app called CalCutter to help New Yorkers cut the calories in their recipes.
A paper published this week in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) has delved into older studies and reanalyzed the data to look for an association between diabetes and consuming dairy products.
A study published in the Journal of Nutritional Science suggests that kiwi fruit can enhance the mood of moody men who are not eating enough fruit and vegetables.
As of Friday last week, 57 people (21 in Wales and 36 in England) have been confirmed as having contracted an unusual strain of Samonella (Salmonella Typhimurium), 9 of which have needed hospitalisation . The outbreak was first detected in northern Wales in August with additional clusters being investigated in…
Back in April we reported on a couple of papers that had found drinking a glass of beetroot juice a day can lower your blood pressure and that it was the nitrates in the beetroot that were responsible for the effect.
Some baby foods on sale in the UK aimed at children as young as 4 months (current recommendation is to start weaning at 6 months) do not meet infant weaning needs. That was the take home message in a paper published in the journal “Archives of Disease in Childhood” last…
Too much salt (sodium chloride) is bad for us, it can cause high blood pressure, strokes, and cardiovascular disease. That is the advice we generally receive, and we are recommended to try to lower our salt intake. In a paper published last month in the Journal Hypertension researchers found that…
A paper published in the Journal Science last week demonstrates the importance of gut bacteria as well as diet in the fight against obesity.
When you hear about the damage that palm tree growing is doing in terms of farmers burning down the rainforests to plant large plantations you probably think, it’s ok, I don’t use palm oil. Well unfortunately you probably do, it is in many processed foods and you won’t see it…