Dark chocolate 'may cut smokers' heart risk' Ian Sample Tuesday December 20, 2005 The Guardian Dark chocolate could help smokers cut the risk of serious heart disease, a study at the University Hospital in Zurich has found.Researchers used ultrasound [...]
Guardian Unlimited | Science | Dark chocolate 'may cut smokers' heart risk'
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, December 20, 2005
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Proof that stress makes you sick - Yahoo! News UK
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Monday, December 5, 2005
Proof that stress makes you sick - Yahoo! News UKAt last it seems the medical profession is finally catching up with Nutritional Therapy. "Stress makesyou sick" well "durrr". Still it's good to have some "scientifically proven" evidence rather than just [...]
All those McDonalds Milkshakes and still poor bone health
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Monday, November 14, 2005
You'd think with all those cheeseburgers, milkshakes, ice creams, lattes, and the dairy that's sneaked into every kind of food imaginable that the medical establishment would have worked out that something didn't add up as dairy as a useful source of [...]
BSE, CJD, Mad Cow Disease may be in milk as well as meat!
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, November 8, 2005
news @ nature.com - Prions suspected in milk - Sheep mammaries shown to contain agents of fatal brain disease.Scientists have finally found evidence for what some nutritionists have suspected for years, that BSE could be passed on in milk. This follows [...]
Baby Health: The importance of DHA during pregnancy and breastfeeding
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, October 27, 2005
• A 2003 study published in the journal Pediatrics showed children whose mothers took a DHA supplement during pregnancy scored higher on intelligence tests at four years of age than children of mothers not taking DHA supplements. • A 2004 study published [...]
Eggs and Bird Flu Warning
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The European Union's food safety agency will advise consumers to avoid raw eggs and poultry in order to prevent the spread of bird flu, an official at the watchdog said, confirming a newspaper report. The deadly H5N1 virus first surfaced in Asia but [...]
New Chocolate! Sugar Free, Dairy Free, EFA & higher protein, lower carb.
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, October 13, 2005
Plamil UK leaders in dairy free foods have liased with nutrition expert Yvonne Bishop-Weston to make a delicious vegan chocolate that's almost too good to be true! Using a new natural birch tree sweetener called xylitol [...]
UK ASA uphold Vegan Complaint against Nestle & Milk Claim
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Monday, October 3, 2005
ASA uphold complaint against Nestle - Milk is not essential : "The ASA considered that the use of the word 'essential' implied dairy products were the only source of calcium. Because that was not correct, they concluded that the advertorial was likely [...]
Junk food to be banned in schools
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Junk food to be banned in schools - Yahoo! News UKLONDON (Reuters) - Junk food high in fat, salt or sugar is to be banned in schools within a year, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly announced on Wednesday after a high profile campaign by celebrity chef [...]
Documentary offers 'Food' for thought
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Future of Food," a documentary about the genetically modified (GM) food industry is a cross between "The Corporation" and "Super-Size Me.""The Future of Food" attacks GM food on three fronts. The first is on health [...]
Doctors 'must train in nutrition'
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Doctors 'must train in nutrition'Doctors in the UK are not given enough training in child nutrition, which can play a major part in good health in adulthood, an expert has warned. Professor Alan Lucas, from University College [...]
Vegan Diet Plan -New study shows high-carb, vegan diet causes major weight loss
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Sunday, September 11, 2005
New study shows high-carb, vegan diet causes major weight lossDiet effective with no limits on portion sizeWASHINGTON -- A low-fat, plant-based diet is more effective at helping women lose weight and improve insulin sensitivity than an omnivorous diet, [...]
Healthy innovation attractive to investors
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, September 9, 2005
Healthy innovation attractive to investors: "09/09/2005 - Developing healthier foods is not only key to stronger sales for food makers but it also boosts a firms financial value, as investors increasingly consider it an important element of corporate [...]
World Vegan Day 1st November
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, September 8, 2005
Following a statement by UK Food expert Professor Tim Lang, of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, London Nutritionists Foods for Life are urging food manufacturers, supermarkets, schools and journalists to [...]
Strokes are preventable
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050830: "The Times, The Guardian and the The Daily Mail all report on a survey conducted by the Stroke Association, which reveals the extent to which people underestimate the risk posed by strokes. The Stroke Association said [...]
Isle of Wight News - VEGAN SCHOOL ON THE MENU FOR ISLAND
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, August 26, 2005
A vegan chef and a top London nutritionist have raised half a million pounds in just a week - to set up the new venture being billed as an international school of nutritional health and culinary arts. The plan is to set up the sustainable vegetarian [...]
Doctor Recognized for Research on Nutrition and Effect on Chronic Diseases
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Dr Walter Willett has probably done more than most scientists to expose the myths and marketing lies about cow's milk that fool people into big waistlines and a host of related illnesses Doctor Recognized for Research on [...]
Brightly-coloured fruit and veg may protect against arthritis
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, August 19, 2005
Brightly-coloured fruit and veg may protect against arthritis: "Rheumatoid arthritis currently affects around 1% adults in the UK. Previous studies have suggested that vitamin C and the pigment beta-cryptoxanthin, both of [...]
New York to Ban Trans Fats?
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Monday, August 15, 2005
New York Restaurants Urged to Eliminate Trans Fats - Los Angeles Times: "NEW YORK No one would ever mistake a place teeming with steakhouses and French restaurants not to mention street vendors hawking beef-laden hot dogs [...]
Alzheimer's fought with Oranges & Green leafy veg.
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, August 12, 2005
Picture: Purslane, high in EFA's Omega 3 another brain protector.Today@UCI: Press Releases:: "Folates more effective in limiting Alzheimer's disease risk than antioxidants, other nutrients Major observational study points [...]
chocolate prevents strokes?
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, August 11, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050811: "Cocoa fights clots Source: Daily Mail Date: 11/08/2005 In a brief snippet in the Daily Mail today, it is reported that scientists in Southampton, led by Dr Denise O'Shaughnessy, have [...]
Strawberries Most Effective in Fighting Against Cancer Cells
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Strawberries Most Effective in Fighting Against Cancer Cells: "In one phase of the study, all of the berry extracts exhibitedanti-proliferative effects and did so in a dose-dependent manner. Thestrongest strawberry effects [...]
Antioxidants Proven To Be Key To Long Life
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Research from the The University of Washington suggests higher dose of antioxidents could allow us to live 20% longer and easily reach ages of over 100 in good health.Antioxidants Proven To Be Key To Long Life: "The International Journal of Food Sciences [...]
Study - Essential fatty acids in plasma in British meat-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men
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Long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in plasma in British meat-eating, vegetarian, and vegan men -- Rosell et al. 82 (2): 327 -- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:Long-chain n–3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in plasma in British meat-eating, [...]
USA Healthy vegetarian Lifestyle Expo-
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Healthy Lifestyle Expo: "5th Annual Healthy Lifestyle Expo Friday, Oct 14 through Sunday, Oct 16, 2005 Burbank Hilton, Burbank California Held during two and a half days at the 50,000 square foot Burbank Hilton Convention [...]
Mercury In Fish - More evidence
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, July 21, 2005
Natural Products Magazine: "FSA reports on high levels of fish contaminants - July 20, 2005 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) claims to have found significant levels of methylmercury and dioxins in both farmed and [...]
Got Milk? - Got Health Problems?
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Got Intolerance? Got Skin Problems?Got Growth Problems?Iritability?A Bit Bloated?Feel like an incredible hulk?Infoplease - Got Milk Substitutes?: "the majority of non-white American adults are lactose intolerant:(*1)Asian [...]
Dark Chocolate for Heart Health
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Breaking Vegan News, Vegetarian News, International News, Worldwide vegan News Feed: "According to a new study, a daily bar-sized indulgence of flavonol-rich dark chocolate could reduce blood pressure and improve insulin resistance.'Previous studies [...]
Red Meat - Red Alert - Cancer Risk
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, July 19, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050719: "Red alert Source: The Independent Date: 19/07/2005 The Independent reports on the news that two warnings about the dangers of red meat have appeared in the past month. A European study [...]
Nutrasweet Aspartame cancer risk.
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, July 15, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050715: "Sweetener's link to cancer" .Source: Daily Mail Date: 15/07/2005 The Daily Mail and others report today on new claims surrounding the artificial sweetner NutraSweet. The artificial additive, [...]
KRT Wire | 07/14/2005 | Food, advertising industries tout new strategy on junk food
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KRT Wire | 07/14/2005 | Food, advertising industries tout new strategy on junk food: "WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Faced with mounting criticism of food marketing directed at increasingly obese children, the food and advertising industry on Thursday fired back [...]
GSK Asthma Drug Could Kill
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, July 14, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050714: "Asthma drug scare at GSK Source: Daily Mail Date: 14/07/2005 The Mail also features a brief item on new concerns for GlaxoSmithKline's popular drug Advair, used to treat asthma. There have been fears for the safety [...]
Vitamin Ban by EU
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, July 13, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050713 Better Health: why the answer is on your plate Source: Times 2 Date: 13/07/2005 In the light of today's ruling on vitamin supplements by the European Union, the Times 2 section offers a two page guide to replacing vitamins [...]
The Blackcurrant Foundation
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The Blackcurrant Foundation: "It may be small, but the mighty blackcurrant is bursting with more health promoting antioxidants than most other fruit and vegetables, including blueberries! It's the special antioxidants called [...]
Let food be thy medicine
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Let food be thy medicine: "Instead of scribbling off prescriptions willy-nilly, doctors would better serve the aims of achieving healthy patients by drawing food and diet into their repertoire. Now. Not all health conditions can be alleviated through [...]
East Anglian Ambulance mobile ICE campaign
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Monday, July 11, 2005
Simple but great idea - have you got ICE in your mobile?East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust website - ICE: "In the case of an emergency would the police or ambulance service know who to contact?Simply type ICE plus a contact [...]
Vegetarian Nutrition for Cars
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Nutrition for cars - what do you feed yours?As Biofuel / biodiesel becomes more popular more cars are going vegetarian to save money and protect the environment.Vegetarian News Feed - vegan cars eat chip fat: "Most of us drive vehicles with ravenous [...]
Co-op Bans MSG and Artificial Food Colours
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Co-op Bans MSG and Artificial Food Colours: The Co-op has become the first supermarket group to ban a range of commonly-used colours and monosodium glutamate (MSG) in all its own-label food, because of potential links to [...]
Mistletoe extract may treat bladder cancer - Healthypages news
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, July 8, 2005
Mistletoe extract may treat bladder cancer - Healthypages news: "After surgery for superficial bladder cancer, treatment with a mistletoe extract appears to be effective at reducing tumor recurrence, German researchers report. Mistletoe extract could [...]
Nutrition and Health Writers - Trusted
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, July 7, 2005
Natural Products Magazine: "New research by the Newspaper Marketing Agency (NMA) reveals the extent to which people increasingly trust and rely on newspaper health pages to help them make vital decisions for themselves and their family. Writing on this [...]
Make Poverty History
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Saturday, July 2, 2005
Make Poverty Hist [...]
Top 20 anti-cancer, anti-oxident foods
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Berries, Beans Top 'Best Antioxidants List': "(HealthDayNews) -- A variety of vegetables, fruits and nuts battled it out for the top spot on a new list of the 20 most antioxidant-rich foods, ranked by nutrition scientists [...]
Blueberries' anti oxident anti cancer properties
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newsobserver.com | Lifestyles: "According to Ronald L. Prior, a research chemist and nutritionist with the USDA's Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center in Little Rock, a one-cup serving of blueberries delivers as much antioxidant [...]
Organic Food more Nutritious, more Vitamins?
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Research At Great Lakes Meeting Shows More Vitamin C In Organic Oranges Than Conventional Oranges: "Organically-grown oranges contain up to 30% more vitamin C than those grown conventionally, it was reported today at a Great [...]
Psoriasis relief by University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Press Release - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne: "Scientists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, studying the effects of a drug used in the treatment of a distressing skin condition, have found that it is actually killing off the cells which [...]
Women's Brains Really Are Blown By Orgasms
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Women's Brains Really Are Blown By Orgasms - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News: "Women's Brains Really Are Blown By OrgasmsAn orgasm is literally a mind-blowing experience for a woman, scientists have revealed.Much of her brain shuts down when she reaches [...]
Less meat could mean less weight
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Less meat could mean less weight: "A new study of about 55,000 healthy, middle-aged Swedish women finds that vegetarians of all types weighed significantly less than their meat-eating counterparts. The findings are some of the first to show a direct [...]
Cranks - still Cranks.
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Friday, June 24, 2005
Awwww - Cranks bless them ! despite Nadine Abensur's and Yvonne Bishop's best efforts it's kind of nostagically reassuring that those nutters at Cranks who were giving us wholemeal pastry in the 1960's when everyone else [...]
Improve Fertility with Nutrition & Health not IVF say Foods For Life.
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, June 23, 2005
Preconception.com Organic Conception Using Nature to Boost Your Fertility: "'Over 15 percent of couples in the U.S. have difficulty conceiving a child,' "A spokesperson for London Nutritionists Foods For Life has dismissed [...]
Britain near bottom for IVF in Europe
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"The Govt and NHS should avoid wasting it's money on IVF and invest in education about nutrition" says Tony Bishop-Weston from Foods For Life.SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Health | Britain near bottom for IVF in Europe: "Britain [...]
UK Doctors urge action on child 'diabesity'
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SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Society | Doctors urge action on child 'diabesity': "Doctors urge action on child 'diabesity' Sarah Boseley, health editorThursday June 23, 2005The Guardian One million obese children under 16 live in the UK - a third of the total [...]
Plant-based foods best hope for the future of our health
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Plant-based foods best hope for the future of our health: "Animal-derived foods contain substances that scientific investigations have shown to be associated with cancer and heart disease incidence: saturated fat, cholesterol, and arachidonic acid. All [...]
Crisp sales down by 12% in UK
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, June 16, 2005
Is the UK public finally getting the message that Gary Linekar is the devil and a peddlar of heart problems, obesity, alzhiemers, strokes, diabetes, and osteoporosis? Sales of crisps are down by 80,000 tons say mintel.Natural Products Magazine: "Crunch [...]
Bug may risk heart health
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bmj.com -- UK health news 20050616: "Bug link to heart Source: The Times Date: 16/06/2005 In a small piece in the Times , it is reported that a study lead by Professor Annibale Monternero has found from a study that patients who need treatment for atrial [...]
Red Meat & Bowel Cancer: Study
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, June 15, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050615: "Red meat linked to increased risk of bowel cancer Source: Daily Telegraph Date: 15/06/2005 Story from Daily Telegraph concerns renewed fears on red meat consumption. A study by the European Prospective Investigation [...]
Fluoride in water cancer risk
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Monday, June 13, 2005
bmj.com -- UK health news 20050613: "Fluoride in water linked to cancer Source: Daily Mail Date: 13/06/2005 The Daily Mail today reports on new research by scientists at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, which has suggested that adding fluoride [...]
Nutritional, industrial uses of hemp seeds
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Sunday, June 12, 2005
Nutritional, industrial uses of hemp seeds: "No other single plant source provides complete protein in such an easily digestible form, nor has the oils essential to life in as perfect a ratio for human health and vitality, says N C Shah in the concluding [...]
ASA Rule Atkins not healthier
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Thursday, June 9, 2005
Natural Products MagazineThe Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has upheld a complaint against an advertisement claiming that the Atkins diet helps people “enjoy a healthier lifestyle”. The ASA has subsequently told the advertiser, Atkins Nutritionals, [...]
Soy better for cholesterol levels
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Wednesday, June 8, 2005
Soy meal replacements better for cholesterol levels: "Reductions in serum cholesterol and LDL cholesterol values at six weeks were significantly greater in the soy group, report the authors in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of [...]
More Milk = More Weight
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Study of 12 829 US children, aged 9 to 14 years shows the more low fat milk kids drink the higher the incidence of weight gain (measured by BMI).Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med -- Abstract: Milk, Dairy Fat, Dietary Calcium, and Weight Gain: A Longitudinal Study [...]
Study to compare weight & obesity in vegans and vegetarians
Diposkan oleh Unknown on Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Risk of overweight and obesity among semivegetarian, lactovegetarian, and vegan women -- Newby et al. 81 (6): 1267 -- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: "Results: The prevalence of overweight or obesity (BMI 25) was 40% among omnivores, 29% among [...]
