Coffee drinkers raise your cups in delight, if you drink more than two cups a day then your chances of (non viral) cirrhosis are reduced. So says a paper that has been accepted for publication in the journal Hepatogy.
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A dire warning from UK food inspectors that unfit meat may enter the food chain if changes to abattoir inspections proposed by Brussels go through.
An interesting publication from the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests that we are not very good at judging portion sizes of our cereal.
5-a-day, any person from the UK should know straight away what we are talking about, we have been told for many years that we should be eating at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables everyday (a glass of orange is allowed as one of them but only one). Now…
Statins are very effective at reducing low density lipoprotein (LDL aka bad) cholesterol in our blood. But according to a paper published last month in the Journal of Functional Foods reducing LDL is only half the job, we also want to increase the amount of high density lipoprotein (HDL aka…
For as long as we have been brewing beer, animals have been fed the spent grain. But not for much longer if a new FDA rule is approved according to a blog on the Boingboing website.
In 1979 five children from the Netherlands were eating oranges when they started to complain about the bitter taste.
Rodney Whitchelo, a former Scotland yard detective caused Heinz to remove over £30 million worth of baby food from supermarket shelves back in 1989 in the UK after contaminating some of it with glass shards and razor blades.
A family including a heavily pregnant women have unwittingly eaten meat that was laced with the psychedelic drug. The meat was purchased from a Walmart store in Tempa, USA and the incident happened earlier this month.
..but that’s not all, avenanthramide (AVE), a phenolic compound found only in oats could also be doing its part in protecting the heart.