How This Broccoli Enzyme Can Slow Aging
Source: Time By Alice Park Researchers have zeroed in on an enzyme — found in natural foods like broccoli and cucumbers — that can slow some of the chronic conditions that […]
Soda and Snack Food Companies Welcomed at Nutrition Conference
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin Once again, processed food companies will be at a major nutrition expo in Boston Updated On the weekend starting October 15, thousands of registered dietitians and […]
To become productive, practice of fasting has become recently popular
Source: BBC Intermittent fasting has become a popular way to keep the waistline under control, but could it also help you put in the best day of your workweek?The age-old […]
Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
Source: Stat News By MELISSA BAILEY As nutrition debates raged in the 1960s, prominent Harvard nutritionists published two reviews in a top medical journal downplaying the role of sugar in […]
USA: NTFB assisted by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to distribute free food on September 10th
Source: https://islamindallas.org/2016/08/25/need-help-with-food/ Need help with food? AUGUST 25, 2016Posted in GENERAL North Texas Food Bank and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program provides food supplies to the needy family in North Texas. If you are in need of supplies, or if you know a family in need, please note that NTFB will be distributing […]
What happens to the body when you fast
Source: BBC In 1965, a 27-year-old man turned up to a Scottish hospital with a strange request. The man, who weighed 207kg (around 32 stone) was giving up food – […]
Why the World’s Best Athletes Can’t Stop Eating McDonald’s
Source: Time By Sean Gregory/Rio de Janeiro The line snakes out of the door and into the Olympic athlete village in Rio de Janeiro, a United Nations of track-suits and warm-up […]
Why Am I Always Hungry?
Source: Time BY Markham Heid Too little sleep and too much stress can make you hungry.Watching TV can make you hungry. Your hormones and moodand even the wrong-sized fork can make you hungry. “Hunger is not as simple as needing food to meet physical needs,” says Aner Tal, a research associate […]
Cities proposing taxes on sugary soft drinks
Source: USA Today By Hadley Malcolm, USA TODAY Some cities are singling out sugar-sweetened drinks for proposals to add taxes or warning labels, borrowing from the playbook used to largely stamp out smoking a generation ago. The […]
4 Hidden Dangers In Your Summer Cookout
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin And “fire” isn’t one of them. With Memorial Day around the corner, there’s no doubt many Americans will be heating up the grill and hosting a […]
The Case Against Artificial Sweeteners Is Getting Stronger
Source: Time By Alice Park They’re supposed to be a way to have the proverbial cake and, literally, eat it too: all the sweet taste without the calories and the metabolic […]
McDonald’s Is Testing Garlic Fries
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman McDonald’s is testing garlic fries at four restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, the fast-food chain confirmed to TIME. Here’s a description of the […]
The pot of tea that costs $10,000
Source: BBC By Theodora Sutcliffe 26 April 2016 In 2002, a wealthy purchaser paid 180,000 yuan – almost $28,000 – for just 20g of China’s legendary Da Hong Pao tea. […]
Beans And Rice For Passover? A Divisive Question Gets The Rabbis’ OK
Source: NPR By Maria Godoy As a Latina who married into a Jewish family, I’ve long lobbied my in-laws to include beans and rice on the Passover menu. The holiday […]
A meal that spans two continents
Source: BBC By Julie Bensman 30 March 2016 No matter what language you speak or where you come from, sharing a meal with friends is the best way to spend […]
Southern Africa’s drought leaves millions hungry
Source: Al Jazeera About 14 million people in Southern Africa are facing hunger because of last year’s poor harvest, caused by the El Nino weather pattern, the World Food Programme […]
Tea vs coffee which drink is better for you
Source: BBC George Orwell may have written that “tea is one of the mainstays of civilization in this country” – but even we British have to acknowledge that our national […]
Japanese cuisine under attack from Western food; chefs fight back with school programs
abc.net.au: by Mathew Carney — Japan has already seen steep increases in diet-related diseases such as diabetes. “People take in too much fat with Western foods and get diseases,” Dr Eguchi said. Japanese food is acclaimed around the world but at home the national cuisine is under serious threat. Japanese youth […]
12 Disgusting “Natural” Ingredients in Your Food
Exposing theTruth: by M. Caulfield — The “natural” label on your food items doesn’t mean that every ingredient is going to be organic or be derived from plants, but in many cases it’s far from it. Natural products can still contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), toxic pesticides and herbicides, growth […]
Brain 'can be trained to prefer healthy food'
The brain can be trained to prefer healthy food over unhealthy high-calorie foods, using a diet which does not leave people hungry, suggests a study from the US. Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction […]