When is milk chocolate good for you?
Eating chocolate may affect you differently in the morning or evening.
It’s always gratifying to hear that our guilty pleasures can have health benefits – like dark chocolate being good fo...
Nutrition
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Junk food linked to gut inflammation
Study shows how a diet high in fat and sugar impairs immune cell function.
The impact of diet on health is really a no-brainer – even leading to calls for GPs to prescribe fruit and vegetables...
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Should doctors prescribe fruit and vegetables?
New research suggests that providing healthy foods in a medical context can help some conditions.
We all know that fruit and vegetables are good for us, but are they so good that medical programs should prescribe th...
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With heart failure, good nutrition could mean survival
Personalised dietary advice reduces risk of death for hospitalised patients.
A Swiss study has shown that personalised nutrition support for people hospitalised with chronic heart failure reduce...
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Easter Wrap: A Chocolate (story) feast
If you haven’t had enough already, here is more!
Easter weekends are often filled with chocolate, and there is always more to go around. Here are some of our favourit...
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Magazine
Zeitgeist: Rising in the yeast
The science of sourdough bread is anything but run of the mill.
For most of human history, sourdough was the dominant form of leavened bread. It wasn’t until about 150 years ago tha...
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A sugar tax is good for all
The UK’s sugar tax hasn’t affected overall buying habits but has reduced sugar intake.
A study has found that, a year after the introduction of a sugar tax, people were still purchasing the same amount of...
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Popcorn’s not the real problem here
Study reveals how badly they eat in the movies.
What you eat at the movies may be less of an issue than what you watch others eat.A new study reveals that nearly...
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Poor nutrition blamed for child height gap
Global study reveals scale of the growth imbalance.
Poor nutrition in school years has helped create a height gap of as much as 20 centimetres between children in differ...
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Super pea could reduce diabetes risk
Natural mutation prevents sugar spikes.
Don’t turn your nose up at wrinkled peas: they could be a life saver. A new study has found that a natural mutation i...
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Maybe we’re hardwired for calorific foods
They were vital for our ancestors but are not so good for us.
High-calorie foods were vital for providing energy to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, potentially even fuelling modern...