As obesity continues to grow globally, scientists still question why. So with the focus clearly on sugar, lead author Dr Maria Luger and her team recently published a review of 30 papers analysing sugar-sweetened drinks in the journal Obesity Facts, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Obesity.
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Research shows the effects of drinking coffee on liver disease, cancers, heart disease and stroke. Plus, the coffee analysis could explain why it provides such great health benefits.
A new study got many foodies excited and frustrated and confused over the last month. A paper from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study, published in The Lancet, fuelled the arguments between Low-Carb and Low-Fat movements from all angles and our health authorities. The media had a great time as well.
Scientists discover a way the ketogenic diet decreases brain inflammation. Now they hope to replicate the mechanism for new treatments to help a range of inflamed brain sicknesses without being on a restrictive high-fat/low-carb diet.
The idea proclaimed by campaign group Go Vegan World got the dairy industry's juices flowing. So much so that they complained the advert was ‘misleading’ readers into thinking farms were not complying with animal welfare standards.
However, the Advertising Standards Authority approved the advert. So now the campaign can be relaunched. And farmers may well continue to be outraged over possible damages to the industry. Along with continued worries over fair returns for their produce.
A new study revealed a huge limitation to the Mediterranean diet. It only works if you live in a household earning £35,000 and can afford quality food and are highly educated. This would suggest that the Mediterranean diet doesn't benefit everyone.
Italian researchers at the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention at the Neurological Mediterranean Institute (Neuromed) studied 18,000 men and women over a four-year period on reducing heart disease with a Mediterranean diet. Their paper was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
Tiny microbes can affect your body shape - inside and out. So much so that they can be used to help you lose weight, lower cholesterol, strengthen your immune system, and the opposite too. They can make you healthy or if unchecked... unhealthy.
Grab the corkscrew... pour yourself a glass of wine... sit back and relax as your diabetes risk is cut by 30%?
According to new Danish research, drinking 7 units per week over a few days shows the lowerest risk of developing any type of diabetes. Plus, the researchers also found no clear link between binge drinking and an increased risk of diabetes. However...
Researchers investigated the event of misfolding islet amyloid polypeptide protein (IAPP) that might cause type 2 diabetes.