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Eating white rice daily increases diabetes risk

By: Christina Thomas | 0 Comments | | Category: Diabetes News, Food news, Health News | Tags : , ,

White rice is a dietary staple for more than half the world’s population – not just for people living in China, India, and Japan, but for many Americans as well. A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health shows people who eat lots of white rice may significantly ... more

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Reasons to eat protein for breakfast – Breakfast Tip

By: Christina Thomas | 0 Comments | | Category: Breakfast News, Food news, Health News | Tags : , , ,

US research found that when overweight or obese young women ate protein-rich breakfasts they not only felt fuller for longer, their brain messages responsible for food cravings were reduced. This impact also seemed to be felt all day. The women on the high-protein breakfasts were not driven to snack on ... more

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Know about top 10 antioxidant foods

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Do you know that antioxidants can help prevent heart disease and cancer, reduce blood pressure and slow the effects of ageing? These naturally occurring compounds protect the body from excess free radicals, sweeping them up before they can cause damage. And the best way to lay an antioxidant-rich foundation that’s ... more

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Green Tea has Small Effect on Cholesterol

By: Christina Thomas | 0 Comments | | Category: Beverage News, Food news, Health News | Tags : , ,

Green tea, taken in capsule or drunk as beverage can lower the ‘bad’ cholesterol level, according to a US study. Study was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association wherein, the past twenty clinical trials were analysed. The trials included in this review included a total of 1,415 ... more

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Many ‘healthy snacks’ are high in calories

By: Christina Thomas | 0 Comments | | Category: Food news, Health News | Tags : , ,

It is the time of year when research about diet and exercise makes a big splash in the headlines, but today the Daily Mail warned that dieters should steer clear of seemingly healthy dips and spreads that are actually high in calories. The newspaper highlighted warnings that hummus, which is widely thought ... more

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Miracle foods: a special report

By: Christina Thomas | 0 Comments | | Category: Food Myths And Facts, Food news, Health News | Tags : , ,

“Curry could save your life.” “Beetroot can fight dementia.” “Asthma risk linked to burgers.” Every day there’s a new crop of seemingly life-changing headlines about how the food we eat affects our health. Food stories are one of the most common topics that Behind the Headlines covers, accounting for about one ... more

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The Eight Most Popular Diets – Diet News

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Nutrition News

The word diet comes from Old French dieteand Medieval Latin dieta meaning “a daily food allowance”. The Latin word diaeta and Greek word diaita mean “a way of life, a regimen”. According to Medilexicon`s medical dictionary, a diet means “1. Food and drink in general. 2. A prescribed course of eating and drinking in which the amount and kind of food, ... more

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Beetroot's effect on blood pressure is uncertain

By: Christina Thomas | 0 Comments | | Category: Food news, Health News, Vegetable News | Tags : , ,

“Beetroot “can lower blood pressure”,” BBC News confidently reports. But the truth about whether beetroot can really lower your blood pressure is a little more unclear than the headlines suggest. The news comes from a study looking at the effect of nitrates on blood pressure in rats and a very small ... more

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