An excess of salt in the diet contributed to the deaths of 2.3 million people worldwide in 2010. Despite this, 75% of people consume nearly twice the recommended levels.
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Those genetic engineers have been at it again and produced a tomato that expresses a peptide (6F) that mimics good cholesterol.
The opinion is in and recommendations have been made. Here are the basics: There are assays available (or in the pipeline) for chemicals that interfere with pathways for oestrogen, androgen, thyroid, or steroidogenesis in fish and mammals, but these are seriously lacking for birds and amphibians. This should be addressed….
Apparently the aroma molecules from olive oil can satisfy hunger, that is according to scientists from the Technische Universität München and the University of Vienna.
How important is it to eat breakfast? We’ve heard the saying “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day” or perhaps the advice “skip breakfast and you’re more likely to put on weight because you will snack before lunch”. But how much is myth and how much is backed…
London of the 18th and 19th centuries was a very different place from today. Most food fraud cases in the UK today involve bulking out a product with a cheaper one such as the horse meat scandal, or the great basmati rice scam.
Phthalates have many uses, but the main use is as an additive to plastics to make them more flexible. However, as the phthalates are not bound to the plastic, they are released at an accelerating rate as the plastic breaks down. We are exposed to phthalates in the environment, and…
Just one day before a ban on soft drinks larger than 473ml (or 16 oz for the non-metric minded) was due to come into play in New York, a judge has ruled the proposed ban to be “arbitrary and capricious”.
There were many very concerning papers in the last few years about endocrine disruptors and obesity. You may say, people are not getting as much exercise as they used too, or are eating more unhealthy, and while these points are accepted the general consensus is that diet and a more…
Eating processed meat is the cause of 1 in 30 early deaths. That was the headline in English newspapers yesterday after a paper was published on the BMC medicine website.