Following the as yet unpublished study results from an independent Italian laboratory, Splenda or sucralose has been downgraded from safe to caution by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
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Getting some exercise is good for you. Nothing new there, but what is new is the discovery that exercise increases the amount of brown fat (a good fat) in the body and this has beneficial knock on effects on the rest of the body.
Maybe storing our vegetables in the dark underbelly of the fridge is not the best place to keep them fresh. According to research published ahead of print on the website of the Journal Current Biology, cabbages are able to respond to day and night cycles for up to one week…
Farmers beware! 5 out of 13 key insect species have become immune to Bt, the built-in pesticide expressed by GM corn and cotton. That is the startling message from a paper published in Nature reported last week in the New Scientist magazine (June 15th 2013, Page 8-9).
Thanks to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) of the UK, you can. They are currently calling for views on phytosterol esters, a compound found in low levels in vegetable oil that has been shown to reduce LDL (the bad) cholesterol. This is because Unilever have made an application for their…
Well, it works on fruit flies at least, that is the findings of a group of scientists from the University of California Irvine, California, USA. The team had previously shown that the extract of Rhodiola rosea could increase the life span of flies, worms and yeast but this time wanted…
If you want to reduce the chance of your tot (or small child to you non-English readers) of developing allergies then feeding them fish on a regular basis from an early ages seems to be the way to do it.
Is it time to relax the restrictions on growing genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe? Owen Paterson, the UK Environment Secretary believes so. He is expected to talk about the issue in a speech next week saying that if we don’t embrace this technology we will be left behind in…
Carrots have some competition. A paper published in this months the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) looked into the role of vitamin B-12 and folic acid in developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Anthocyanins are powerful antioxidants that have been reported as having health effects against cancer, inflammation and infections to name a few. The problem is large quantities are needed to elicit these responses when tested in the lab and it is thought most of them are broken down before getting into…