Low-down on low-fat milk - For years, low-fat cow’s milk has been enthusiastically promoted as the perfect health drink, providing adults with ‘essential’ vitamins and minerals,...

Who calls for new guidelines on organic food labels - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization have agreed that new guidelines are needed for the production, processin...

The low-fat fallacy - The connection between dietary fat and disease is so entrenched in our thinking that it has spawned a multimillion-dollar processed-foods industry, in...

Losing Weight: Low-fat foods won’t help - If you want to lose weight, forget eating a low-fat diet. Low-fat foods, which achieve billions of dollars of sales every year, will help you lose so...

Low fat can be bad for your health - Very low fat diets can be harmful to some people, confirms the American Heart Association. ...

Female low fat diets dangerous - Women who follow low fat diets to reduce their cholesterol levels may be increasing their risk of heart disease, according to a Scottish study. ...

Heart disease 'doubles' despite low fat diets - Figures suggest that heart disease in the United States has more than doubled, despite a drive to low fat, cholesterol lowering diets. ...

Vitamin claims curbed by fda - Health claims for vitamins and dietary supplements that appear on product labels are to be tightly controlled by health authorities in the US. Any cla...