We’ve all heard that beans are good for the heart, (and if you haven’t then I suggest you google it to learn a great playground rhyme) but did you know beans along with chickpeas, lentils and peas are able to reduce your LDL (bad) cholesterol?
No, unfortunately for all you crisp lovers out there that does not mean eating Pringles all the time, this is referring to the paper that says eating 24 Pringles a day (fried in a special oil) can help to lower levels of olychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the blood.
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…
..but that’s not all, avenanthramide (AVE), a phenolic compound found only in oats could also be doing its part in protecting the heart.
News this week from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) website that they want your views on allowing cycloastragenol as a novel food ingredient.
A high protein diet is good in old age, but detrimental to health in middle age, at least according to a paper published in the journal Cell Metabolism this month.
Vegetarians in Austria are more likely to be in a poorer state of health and have a lower quality of life compared to meat eaters. That was one of the surprise findings in a paper published in the journal PLOS last month.
If you want kids to eat healthier snacks promote them in a manga magazine (a type of comic book), that was the message from a paper published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior in January.
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