This week in the Journal of the American Healthcare Association (JAMA), David Ludwig, MD, PhD of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston has written his viewpoint about fructose vs. glucose. So why all the fuss? Because the obesity epidemic is continuing…
“Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend” frozen berry and pomegranate mix sold by Costco could be responsible for the multistate Hepatitis A outbreak in the USA that has so far infected 61 people.
That is the reason behind a research project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in the Bavarian town of Freising, Germany.
That is the opinion of The Salt Reduction Seminar hosted by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). For the last 10 years, the FSAI has been working in conjunction with the food industry to voluntarily reduce salt in processed food items.
Those genetic tinkerers have been at it again. This time they have produced a purple tomato that has superior taste and longer shelf life.
If our last story about using flies and maggots to feed our livestock was turning your stomach how about feeding them protein recovered from poultry industry waste such as feathers instead?
Could you imagine walking into the supermarket or butcher and seeing “fly reared” on the packet of beef?
We’ve all heard the Mediterranean diet is good for us, but what do we do when its difficult to get some of the food items in the diet? Try the Nordic diet!
Its back again, another study has been published detailing the enhanced learning and memory achieved in rats when fed phosphatidylserine, this time derived from krill.
That’s right, researchers from the UK have published a paper demonstrating that chewing gum can help keep you focused on the task at hand. If only this was known while I was at school.


