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17/4/12
This research carried out by the University of Glasgow asked 2000 people across the UK to estimate how many teaspoons of sugar where in drinks. Many overestimated that in fizzy drinks and underestimated significantly that in milkshakes, smoothies and some fruit juices as they percei ...
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2/4/2012
The headlines in the paper for treating babies in the womb for obesity is not quite as it sounds. This is part of an ongoing study in the NHS to seek to reduce the risks that exist in pregnancy when the mother is obese.
If the mother is obese risks increase to both mother and bab ...
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Nicole has been working hard as the off screen dietitian and expert nutrition science advisor as part of the production team for Channel 4's new series, The Food Hospital.
Patients with wide ranging conditions from migraines in a 7 year old child to obesity, cholesterol and diabetes i ...
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Marmite banned in Denmark, but full of B vitamins. it's still allowed here!
Following a scare in Denmark some years back of a product with added vitamins being consumed in excess so that the intake levels went over the recommendations for children or pregnant mums, Denmark introduced its own ...
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In the latest studies commissioned by the Food Standard agency organic food and conventional produce were compared for nutrient content and differences in health outcomes with a systematic review of studies carried out from 1958-2009
The findings show no nutrient content differences of re ...
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The World Cancer Research Fund released information urging parents to avoid giving children processed meats to help reduce the risk of cancer. This includes bacon, ham, salami, hot dog sausages and pepperoni meats.
Scientists estimate about 3,700 bowel cancer cases could be prevented e ...
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Some pre-packed salads have been found to have more fat and calories than eating a burger and fries or 6 crème eggs. A study by the consumer organisation Which? looked at a variety of supermarket off the self salads, taking a close look at the small print on the labels.
A 300g sma ...
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Walnuts have once again been flagged up for super health properties, this time with a link to breast cancer risk reduction. Studies done on mice by Dr Elaine Hardman at Marshall University School of Medicine found that walnut consumption significantly reduced the number of glands with tumour, the si ...
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A pill which blocks the absorption of fat, previously only available on prescription goes on sale over the counter soon for overweight people with a BMI of 28 or more. It’s called Alli, made by GlaxoSmithKline, and needs to be taken with each meal where it prevents the fat in the meal being ab ...
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Making healthy choices when you eat out may soon become much easier. The Food Standard Agency has begun work to introduce nutrition information on menus and point of sale in restaurants and catering outlets with the aim of encouraging consumers to make healthy choices.
Initially this project enc ...
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