Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Is the recent economic downturn or ‘credit crunch’ as its generally referred to, not only affecting our bank balance, but also our health? New evidence suggests that this is true.
 
An expert in European public health, Professor Martin McKee, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says much of the research on the issue [...]

Even if you don’t smoke yourself, research has found that if you are married to a smoker it will significantly raise your risk of a stroke.
 
The team form Harvard University looked at records of more than 16,000 people over the age of 50, and their spouses, over a period of nine years. The study, published [...]

Parents of overweight children will be sent ‘fat reports’ from their schools as part of the governments anti-obesity drive, it was revealed yesterday.
Schools will weigh children at the age of four to five and again at ten to 11, then send details of their height and weight to their parents, with advice about whether the [...]

 
Food manufacturing giants including Cadbury, Kellogg and Mars have pledged more than £200 million to support a UK government-backed scheme to tackle obesity in the country.
 
Kraft, Nestle and PepsiCo have also joined the consortium that includes manufacturers, retailers, broadcasters and fitness groups in supporting a campaign dubbed Change4Life, which has the aim of encouraging people [...]

 
New mums can pass on their love of certain foods to their babies via their breast milk, research has suggested.
 
By eating particular types of food up to an hour before feeding time, a mother essentially creates a milkshake inside her, which will give the baby the chance to become used to new flavours, according to [...]

 
The UK government has set out more details on how it will be introducing five-yearly MOTs for doctors. Last year the government committed itself to bringing in a system of re-licensing 150,000 doctors to test their basic competence. GPs and consultants will also face specific testing to see if they can continue in their specialities.
 
The [...]

 
The Food Standards Authority has published new evidence today that shows the UK’s average daily salt intake has fallen from 9.5g to 8.6g since 2000. Although these figures are encouraging, it’s still a long way from the government’s target of 6g a day.
 
In a statement the FSA said: “The Food Standards Agency is encouraged that [...]

 
With celebrity endorsements from Kate Moss and Sir Mick Jagger, goji berries have been at the forefront of the UK’s craze for “superfoods”, but the innocuous berries could devastate Britain’s multi-million pound tomato and potato crops.
 
The government alerted farmers to the threat after it revealed that nearly 90,000 goji berry plants, which carry diseases lethal [...]

 
The Food Standards Agency has carried out qualitative research in an effort to find out how people’s eating habits are determined by their attitudes towards food and health, rather than by other demographic characteristic, such as age and gender.
 
The research identified four distinct population groups; health conscious pragmatists, convenience driven health rejecters, concerned health advocates [...]

The government has launched a £286m strategy to support people as they come to the end of their lives. Health secretary Alan Johnson and Care Services minister Ivan Lewis announced new measures to provide better support and care to those who wish to die at home.
People are to be given more control over where they [...]