Recent research*, due to be published in the November issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has shown that a diet high in wholegrains and low in refined grains leads to a reduction in a type of fat that has been linked …
Dr Mary Flynn, a leading US dietician with over 25 years experience, has written a new book called ‘The Pink Ribbon Diet’ which aims to help women lose weight as well as beat breast cancer. As excess weight is a known …
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that African children fed a largely vegetarian diet and breast-fed to 2 years had vastly different gut bacteria than those children living in European cities and breast-fed for …
From teenage girls to elderly women, the diets of Britain’s female population is lacking in key nutrients, according to a recent review of over 100 scientific studies. Women in general are consuming too much salt and saturated fat while consuming too little …
A review by the Harvard School of Public Health found that people who consumed 50g of processed meat every day (equivalent to 2 rashers of bacon) have a 42% higher chance of developing heart disease and a 19% higher chance …
Researchers have found that sulforaphane, a compund found in broccoli and broccoli sprouts, may prevent the spread of breast cancer. The research, published in Clinical Cancer Research, involved laboratory experiments using breast cancer cell cultures and mice with breast cancer. When …
An Australian study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that women who ate four or more servings of processed meat per week such as ham, salami, pepperoni, ham or bacon, had an 18% higher risk of developing ovarian cancer than those …
Researchers at Harvard University studied the eating patterns of 30,000 teenagers and then determined how many developed Benign Breast Disease, a marker for breast cancer risk, four years later. It was found that those who ate 2 servings per week …
A study published in Nutrition Research has shown that an egg-based breakfast is significantly better at reducing hunger pangs during the day than a carbohydrate-rich breakfast containing the same number of calories. The study found that men who ate eggs …
A junk food diet high in fat and sugar, thought to be behind the current rise in obesity levels, has been shown to be as additive as heroin or cocaine. A study, published in Nature Neuroscience, showed that rats quickly became …
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