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Why the world just keeps on getting fatter…

03/06/2015  |   Tags: 
  • Diets
  • Fats
  • Sweets & Salt & Junk Food

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…

Confusion about caffeinated drinks is rife!

03/06/2015  |   Tags: 
  • Diets
  • Sweets & Salt & Junk Food

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…

Setting the Record Straight on Soya

03/06/2015  |   Tags: 
  • Diets
  • Soya

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…

Chicken is the healthy choice, we’re told

03/06/2015  |   Tags: 
  • Chickens - Meat
  • Diets
  • Eggs
  • Meat

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…

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Do we need Fish for Omega 3s and health?

03/06/2015  |   Tags: 
  • Diets
  • Fish

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!…

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