Just one for the adults unfortunately, scientists from Spain have come up with a novel way of getting one of the 5 a day but with less sugar which has been highlighted recently by the Obesity expert Prof. Robert Lustig as being “toxic”.
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Imagine the scene, you have just finished a hard day’s work, in the garden, labouring or redecorating the house. You know you should probably drink something sensible to rehydrate you but then you see that nice ice cold beer sitting in the fridge…
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Scientists from the University of Illinois have demonstrated that consuming soy products protect against colon cancer, in an animal model anyway.
I kid you not, a company has come up with an ingenious concentrated beer for backpackers to take with them that weighs alot less than conventional beer meaning space for more things in your backpack (or more beer depending on your preference).
Eating black rice (Oryza sativa L.) can reduce the amount of cholesterol your body absorbs. That was the main finding of a paper published ahead of print on the website of the Food and Function journal.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the UK has issued a letter in response to a newspaper article that claimed they were going to suggest steaks should be cooked until no pink remains.
Carlsberg workers don’t do walk outs, but if they did…oh sorry, actually they have. That is the news this week that 130 workers in the Carlsberg plant in Fredericia, Denmark have gone on strike after an employee was hired who is not part of the brewer’s union.
That is according to a study published ahead of print in the journal Pediatrics. The researchers looked at levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in the urine of children and found it was associated with higher levels of obesity.
It seems hard to believe, but one of our five-a-day could be worse for us than drinking sodas. Pure orange juice, that glass of goodness that so many of us look forward in the morning has been described by an Obesity expert, Prof Robert Lustig, as basically sugar and therefore…