Well, not according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal.
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Potatoes have a high Glycemic Index (GI), meaning that your blood glucose level will increase quite rapidly after eating it. Due to this, some people have suggested that it should be avoided when on a diet. But does it have to be?
As we get older, parts of us start to degenerate. It may make some people uncomfortable to think about it but it happens nonetheless.
An interesting paper for you published in the Journal Of Psychopharmacology earlier this month. Apparently doses of curcumin, the main curcuminoid found in the South Asian spice turmeric, are able to improve “sustained attention and working memory tasks” in 60-85 year olds one hour after ingestion compared to a placebo….
Parents of children drinking non cow’s milk beware! Are your children getting enough Vitamin D?
Our old friend sulforaphane (found in cruciferous vegetables) is back in the news again. This time it has been used to help treat young males with autism spectrum disorder.
A question that seems to come up again and again in research, we have reported on it a number of times (Coffee: good or bad?, Coffee break could help the memories to stay, Two cups a day to keep cirrhosis at bay, Wake up and gargle the coffee ) which…
…to reduce incidence of malignant hematoma, the most common type of liver cancer.
That’s the big question that the Food Standards Agency (FSA)in the UK have decided to answer with a sampling and testing programme at milling plants in the UK.
….and some like it artificial. This is the news that a Japanese company has requested that their synthetic dihydrocapsiate be allowed to be used in food supplements.