Archive for May, 2010

Could Chocolate Reduce Your Risk of Stroke?

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Good news for chocoholics - researchers recently revealed that eating a bar of chocolate a week could help prevent strokes. The Canadian scientists looked at the diets of 50,000 people and found that those who ate chocolate were almost a quarter (22%) less likely to suffer a stroke than the ...

Easier to Over-Eat with Organic?

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

A Soil Association stamp is designed to give consumers peace of mind when choosing food, but could it, in fact, give you a false sense of security? Findings presented in April at the Experimental Biology conference in California showed how people tended to eat far more of foods labelled organic. ...

Doctors Call for Trans Fats Ban

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Doctors writing in the British Medical Journal are calling for trans fats, or hydrogenated fats, to be banned from the UK, claiming that this would help to prevent thousands of heart attacks and save thousands of lives each year. The doctors assert that trans fats raise cholesterol levels and contribute ...