Eat Seven Or More Portions Of Fruit And Vegetables A Day

Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day reduces your risk of death at any point in time by 42% compared to eating less than one portion, reports a new UCL study.


Researchers used the Health Survey for England to study the eating habits of 65,226 people representative of the...
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Mapped Tweets Revealed Beer Preferences

Researchers who mapped tweets revealed how “beer space” on Twitter reflects real-world preferences of brews and beer brands in the United States. For example, tweet preferences for Bud Light were found in the Eastern half of the US, while preferences for Coors Light originate in...
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Beetles Help Transporting New Yeast Species Around The Globe

Researchers from the National Collection of Yeast Cultures (NCYC) at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) have identified a new globe-trotting yeast species that lives on tree-associated beetles. This new species demonstrates the importance of preserving biodiversity, as yeasts like this may...
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Amazing Oriental Recalls Nissin Cup Noodle Instant Seafood

THE NETHERLANDS – Amazing Oriental is recalling Nissin Cup Noodle Instant Seafood because during routine quality control the product was found with a slightly different flavor.
The recalled product is Nissin Cup Noodle Instant Seafood packaged in 75 grams pots with lot number 141287 and...
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Bergpracht Recalls Farmhouse Cheeses And Soft Cheeses With Blue Mold

AUSTRIA – Bergpracht is recalling “Organic farmhouse cheese”, “Our home farmhouse cheese”, “Bergpracht soft cheese with blue mold” and “Bergpracht Demeter Bio – soft cheese with blue mold” (“Bioland Bio-Hofkäse”, “Unsere He...
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Edeka Recalls Applesauce GUT & GÜNSTIG

GERMANY – Edeka Zentrale AG & Co. KG is recalling Apfelmus GUT & GÜNSTIG (Applesauce GOOD & INEXPENSIVE) because some of the batches may be contaminated with pieces of glass. Therefore the product may pose a health risk.
The recalled product is Apfelmus GUT & GÜNSTIG (...
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Urine Interacting With Chlorine In Swimming Pools Poses Health Risks

A new study shows how uric acid in urine generates potentially hazardous “volatile disinfection byproducts” in swimming pools by interacting with chlorine, and researchers are advising swimmers to observe “improved hygiene habits.”
Chlorination is used primarily to...
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Stress Can Cause Frequent Allergy Symptoms

Stress doesn’t cause allergies, but easing your mind might mean less allergy flare-ups this spring. According to a study published in the April issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, allergy ...
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Customers Prefer Restaurants That Offer Nutrition Facts And Healthful Foods

Customers are more likely to frequent restaurants that provide both healthful foods and nutrition information, according to researchers at Penn State and the University of Tennessee.
“The Affordable Care Act has mandated that chain restaurants — those with more than 20 restaurants...
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Fast Food Ads Don’t Send The Right Message

Fast food giants attempts at depicting healthier kids’ meals frequently goes unnoticed by children ages 3 to 7 years old according to a new study by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center. In research published on March 31, 2014 in JAMA Pediatrics, Dartmouth researchers found that on...
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Is Chickpea A Food Of The Future?

Bumping along the dirt roads of rural southeastern Turkey in a battered Jeep, Sergey Nuzhdin and his team of collaborators got an occasional glimpse of the plumes of smoke rising across the border in war-torn Syria.
Their focus however, was not on the political crisis engulfing Turkey’s...
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Herencia Genética Afecta Niveles De Colesterol En Población Mestiza

Expertos del Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen) llevan a cabo un estudio sobre los factores genéticos asociados a niveles bajos de colesterol “bueno” (HDL). Estos niveles bajos son altamente prevalentes en la población mexicana y con frecuencia pasan desapercibidos por quienes lo...
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How Microbes Steal Our Food?

It’s long been known that microbes are to blame for food going off and becoming rotten but in the late 1970′s, Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania, and a winner of ecology’s version of the Nobel Prize, suggested that making something rotten may be to the advantage of...
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Fruit Fly To Help Guide Researchers On Nutrition Measurement

Credit: Scott Bauer, U.S. Department of Agriculture

At first glance, measuring what the common fruit fly eats might seem like a trivial matter, but it is absolutely critical when it comes to conducting studies of aging, health, metabolism and disease. How researchers measure consumption can...
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HabEat Project Aims To Understand Eating Behaviours In Early Life

As part of the European project HabEat (2010-2014), coordinated by INRA and involving 10 scientific partners, researchers have made a step forward in the understanding of how eating behaviours and preferences form in early life. On March 31st and April 1st in Dijon (France), a symposium...
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Northern and Southern Hemisphere Climates Follow the Beat of Different Drummers

Field work in the Indian Ocean. The corals off the Broome coast, Western Australia, store information about past climate (Copyright: Eric Matson, Australian Institute of Marine Science)

Over the last 1000 years, temperature differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres were...
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Reducing Dairy And Meat Consumption Required To Meet Climate Targets

Greenhouse gas emissions from food production may threaten the UN climate target of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, according to research at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.  On Monday 31 March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented their report on ...
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Organic Food Not Efficient In Reducing Likelihood Of Developing Cancer

Women who always or mostly eat organic foods have the same likelihood of developing cancer as women who eat conventionally produced foods, according to an Oxford University study.
Kathryn Bradbury and colleagues in Oxford’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit found no evidence that regularly eating...
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New Listeria Species Discovered

Cornell researchers have discovered five new species of a group of bacteria called Listeria – including one named for Cornell – that provide new insights that could lead to better ways to detect soil bacteria in food.
To date, of the 10 previously known species of Listeria, only two are pat...
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Obesity Prevention Programs Can Reduce Blood Pressure In Children

One of the serious health consequences of obesity is elevated blood pressure (BP), a particular problem in children because research has found that high BP in children usually follows them into adulthood, carrying with it a wide range of possible negative consequences.
Even modest elevations...
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