Being slightly overweight could help you live longer. A surprising conclusion from a paper published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The researchers compiled data from 97 studies which contained the body mass index (BMI) of over 2.88 million individuals and recorded more than 270,000…
Gazpacho soup – it’s delicious, nutritious and now it has been shown to reduce blood pressure. Gazpacho soup is a cold soup containing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, breadcrumb, olive oil, garlic and a little salt. Looking at the list of ingredients, it probably should come as no surprise that the mix…
Are you worried about the environmental cost of eating meat but can’t quite bring yourself to go vegetarian? Well, you could significantly reduce the impact by eating mealworms…yummy.
Heavy smokers could actually increase their chance of developing lung cancer if they are taking over 20 mg per day of β-carotene supplements.
Strong words from the UK Food Minister Owen Paterson who is in charge of food and farming. He has described opposition to genetic modification (GM) as “Humbug” and said concerns about human health are misplaced.
According to The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) up to 25% of children in the UK are not getting enough vitamin D leading to an increase in rickets. So why do we need vitamin D? It helps our bodies to absorb calcium and phosphate and is found…
Food supplements are dietary additions intended to supplement the food we eat. The European Commission has established rules for the whole of the EU relating to supplements containing vitamins and minerals. Maximum and minimum amounts are being set for every vitamin and mineral approved for use.
140,000 children under the age of 5 in the UK suffer from diarrhoea causing rotavirus each year. From September next year, a vaccination program will start to vaccinate children under 4 months old.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and 6 EU member states have carried out independent assessments of the controversial paper by Séralinia et al. published on the 19th September 2012 in the Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology that concluded that a strain of GM maize and a pesticide could increase…
The Emerging Risks Unit of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has set up a task force to collect, collate and analyse data on bees. Once the data is all in, potential gaps in knowledge can be identified.
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