Food and Diet

Smokers: The Med diet can help undo all your bad work

Smokers can do much to undo the damage caused by their habit by adopting a Mediterranean diet. Researchers from Harvard have found that the diet can reduce the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary d... more »

Fancy a cuppa? Drink more than three cups a day to reduce your risk of heart disease

You can reduce your risk of heart disease by drinking three or more cups of black tea a day, a new study has found. Tea drinking can also protect against tooth plaque and can help strengthen bones. more »

Food Alert: 3 million chickens for sale in the USA contaminated by glue chemical

Around 3 million chickens that are currently being sold in stores and supermarkets across America have been contaminated by the chemical melamine. more »

Mushroom Magic

Mushrooms have been valued throughout the world — particularly in Asia — as both food and medicine for centuries. Now, some members of the fungal kingdom are beginning to attract the attention of West... more »

The dangers of commercial milk

Raw milk is collected from farms daily or every other day and taken to dairies by tanker for processing. On arrival, it is subjected to various tests and, once given the all-clear, is stored and coole... more »

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, but without the so-called heart-unhealthy fat fou... more »

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, informed the dietary advice given by doctors to gene... more »

Milk: How much longer will Monsanto be allowed to put growth hormone into America’s dairy products?

The tide is finally turning against chemical giant Monsanto and its right to use a growth hormone in every dairy herd in the USA. more »

Constipation: It could be caused by a food allergy

Constipated? It could be because you have an unsuspected food allergy. That certainly was the case for four women who had more »

Low-GI Diet: It’s the best lifestyle choice after all

So what is the best diet for us to follow? Not just the one that will help us lose weight (and hopefully keep it that way), but the one that is also the healthiest, and will help us live a long and d... more »

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