An interesting publication for you published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition earlier this month talks about the lack of animal protein for feeding the world’s growing population.
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Scientists have shown that a breakdown product from fermentable carbohydrates, acetate, travels from the gut to the brain when released and is believed to suppress hunger.
Apparently drinking a daily juice made from broccoli sprouts can detox your body of airborne pollutants. So says a paper published earlier this month in the journal Cancer Prevention Research and brought to our attention by the article in the Huffington Post.
Reported in the science magazine New Scientist last week, scientists from The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project have created an American chestnut that is resistant to the blight has all but wiped it out in most of the US.
All is not well in Lower Saxony, Germany. US energy group ExxonMobil carried out a fracking test back in 2011 and now locals are convinced that the company has earmarked the area for the first fracking site in Germany.
An interesting bit of research published in the Nutrition Journal claims that, calorie for calorie, oats or porridge will fill you up more than a leading brand oat based cereal.
After the success of the war on salt in ready meals the offence continues against excess sugar. Which? magazine has tested the levels of sugar in ready meals, both big brands and shop own brands and have found some have double the recommended daily amount of sugar in them, as…
Volunteers in China have been eating mealworms for over a 100 days in a sealed lab in Beijing to test the possibility of using the protein rich insects as food for astronauts.
Start them early apparently. That was the findings of a UK study published in the online journal PLOS last week.
Yes, this is the findings from a study presented at the Association For Psychological Science 26th Annual Convention earlier this week.