Students and over indulgers rejoice! Scientists from down under may have found a way to avoid that head splitting feeling the morning after the drunken night before.
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At the end of the blog yesterday that suggested that too much soy bean oil in our diet is not a good idea we asked what should we be frying with then?
If someone was to say what is worse for you, a diet rich in saturated fat, in fructose or in soybean oil? I’m pretty sure most of us would not choose the last one, but worryingly that is the conclusion that a group of scientists from University of California have…
In the second part of our blog about protein sources presented at the IFT15: Where Science Feeds Innovation hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in Chicago, we talk about algae and other alternative sources of plant protein.
With the high environmental cost of meat production and the increasing demand for protein rich food, alternative sources of protein were one of the questions being pondered at the IFT15: Where Science Feeds Innovation hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) in Chicago.
Fat cells are interesting things, not only can they tide us over when food is scarce by storing our excess energy in times of plenty (white fat), but they can also release all their energy as heat to help regulate our temperatures, especially when we are babies (brown fat).
A variation on a theme we have already blogged about but one that is worth repeating. When eating foods rich in carotenes, for instance a salad containing tomato, carrot and peppers, add some fat to get the most out of it.
Eating between meals, a generation ago it was seriously frowned upon but in today’s world of eating on the go or at our desks it has become part of the norm. But what about teenagers, what should we give them if they are hungry between meals?
As we get older we should have more of an eye on our diets, and one aliment that can apparently be avoided or reduced by changes in our diet is age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a loss of vision in the centre of your field of view caused by damage to…
We’ve all heard about the Mediterranean diet, whether in the press or from the advertising campaigns of margarine spreads loaded with olive oil. But what would be the effect on our cognitive abilities of combining the basic diet (fish, fermented milk products (yogurt and cheese), fresh fruit/vegetables and lows levels…