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Obesity is now the most important nutritional disease in the Western world. And in even the poorest countries it is increasing at an alarming rate. For the first time in…
Veronika Powell shuns the sensationalism and charts a path through the caffeine labyrinth. Caffeine is the most widely consumed pharmacologically active (drug-like) substance in the world. Found naturally in over…
Don’t buy the old chestnut that a world-class athlete can’t get enough protein from a vegetarian diet! Carl Lewis is all the proof you need, the greatest track-and-field athlete ever…
Soya foods may confer many health benefits, but remain controversial. Here we review the latest research and set the record straight. PHYTOESTROGENS Many of the beneficial (and supposed harmful) effects…
Low fat, high protein, essential for kids’ growth and for muscle in athletes! You can’t get a better marketing image than that. Sadly, it’s just another of the myths that…
Everywhere you look these days fish oils are being promoted – celebrity scientists recommend them to children, TV adverts imply brain-boosting benefits, food producers slip them into all manner of foods!…
This content has been updated. Read: The evolution of humans The physiology of humans One of the most pervasive myths surrounding vegetarianism is the belief that humans are naturally meant... Cues From The Body: We’re Wheat-Eaters, Not Meat-Eater Basic anatomical comparisons show that people have much more in common with herbivores than carnivores – or even omnivores! Just a look...
Thrush, that annoying and for some, embarrassing infection of the vagina, is startlingly common – and on the increase.
World Turned Upside Down! Just imagine the reaction if a specific diet could produce these headlines: “Heart disease rates tumble! 40,000 heart patients taken off critical list – misery lifted…
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