Colon cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide. In 2008, 1.24 million cases were diagnosed and 610,000 fatalities occurred. A new publication in BMJ brought together the results from 25 studies looking at effect of eating fibre from different sources, i.e. fruit, vegetable, legume and cereal on the incidence…
Eating a diet consisting of unprocessed foods such as fruit, vegetables, nuts, oils, fish, poultry and lean meat was able to decrease cholesterol in two weeks by a level that takes 6 months with statins.
Researchers at Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, have developed a test that can detect pesticide build up in farmed fish. As demand for fish has grown, the fish meal used as fed has been replaced with soya, maize and rape which can contain pesticides.
There should be EU-wide mandatory nutritional risk screening. This is the call coming from leading policy makers, scientists, industrial representatives and insurance groups from across Europe ahead of the EU nutrition day tomorrow (10.11.11).
Giving children who have high haemoglobin levels baby food fortified with iron could adversely affect their development.
Banning sugar sweetened beverages from schools does not lead to a reduction in overall consumption. That is the conclusion of a report published on the 7th November in the Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine based on 10 and 14 year olds from the USA.
It is well known that cranberries can help fight urinary tract infections and work has been carried out developing extracts. However, comparisons of an extract and cranberry juice found that cranberry juice was better at preventing and fighting infections than the extract.
Research published in the Journal of Food Processing and Preservation has demonstrated that darker coloured potatoes retain a higher level of antioxidants after processing than standard ones.
With the increase in cases of rickets over the last 5 years, Kellogg’s has decided to fortify all of its children’s breakfast cereal with Vitamin D by March 2012.
A research article published in this month’s Science Translational Medicine demonstrates that probiotic yogurt does have an effect on gut bacteria. McNulty and colleagues ran two parallel studies using identical human twins and Gnotobiotic mice, i.e. mice with only certain known strains of human gut bacteria in their guts.
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