Low calorie sweeteners (LCS), they are already the sweetness in our diet or zero drinks, and are starting to make an appearance is reduced sugar drinks such as Coke Life. But can they really help us to lose weight as part of a calorie controlled diet as written at the…
Fans of guacamole rejoice! Eating an avocado a day could help to lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol. Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association the paper describes how when people were fed either a low fat diet with no avocado, a medium fat diet with no avocado or…
…Eating a diet that contains high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) equivalent to the added sugar we can have in our diet is bad news for fertility and life expectancy, in female mice at least.
Put aside those high protein or cave man diets for a minute and listen to this. Eating high amounts of whole grain seems to lower total and heart disease mortality, at least according to a paper published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine yesterday.
Researchers have pooled together the data from a number of studies and found that eating yogurt seems to be inversely correlated with developing type II diabetes (T2D).
Another omega 3 fatty acid blog for you to start off the new year. Researchers have been giving hens supplements of fish oil, chia seeds and linseed seed (or flax for our friends across the pond) to try and increase the omega 3 fatty acid levels in the eggs, and…
111 people across 12 states in the US have become infected with Salmonella after consuming bean sprouts.
Yes, I kid you not, someone has decided to do away with oil and came up with the idea of frying in molten glucose. But does it work?
Duck weed, any pond owner is probably very familiar with the stuff. It is a free floating plant that tries to exclude any light from getting into your pond by blanketing the entire surface.


