Sensible if you think about it, but still surprising, breast milk will differ in its contents depending on whether the child is a boy or a girl.
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Another reason to make sure you’re getting a good dose of fresh fruit and veg.
Yes, those clever crop scientists have been hard at work and produced a treatment for broccoli that first of all increases the amount of glucosinolates while the vegetable is ripening and then a second treatment that slows down the ripening process and hence increases the shelf life.
Cannabis, in some people it might invoke an image of someone at Woodstock, to others a misspent youth and to yet others a good source of fibre for textiles. But in most it would probably not invoke the image of a food source.
According to a paper published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry eating a high fat diet can (apparently) cause impairment in physical and mental functioning, similar to age related decline. But before you start to panic it seems american blueberries can go some way to countering this effect.
A diet rich in soft fruit such as lingonberries, bilberries and blackcurrants could offset some of the detrimental metabolic effects induced by a high-fat diet.
What is the most successful way to reward your children with a snack now and again without them turning into a snack junkie? That was the question (more or less) that a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) tries to address.
..for women at least. So says a paper to be published in the February edition of the Journal of Nutrition.
In rats at least it seem to be true. That was the cautionary news from a piece of research published in the Spanish journal Nutricion Hospitalaria.
Lactose intolerance should not stop you from enjoying the apparent health benefits of yogurt. Soy based yogurts are available in most health shops and even supermarkets. But now researchers from the Institute of Food Engineering for Development at the Polytechnic University of Valencia are coming up with yogurts based on…