An outbreak of salmonella inked to ready-made sandwiches has struck down 80 people, killing one. The outbreak has mainly affected young adults around the UK and Ireland, although a 12-month-old child is also reportedly ill.
Last month, a woman in her late 70s died at home a few days after being discharged form the Royal [...]
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As reported a few weeks back, the government will start issuing letters to the parents of schoolchildren who are classed as obese. But – in a classic case of softness – the government has banned the word ‘obese’, and will instead be classed as “very overweight”.
The Department of Health has been under fire for [...]
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Specialists from the University of California have recommended that treatment to lower cholesterol should begin in childhood in order to cut the risk of heart disease.
They claim that although the success of cholesterol-lowering treatments such as statins, which have reduced the amount of deaths from heart disease by around 30 percent, most patients [...]
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been warned that moves to cut salt levels in bacon and ham increases the risk of the potentially fatal, paralysing food bug botulism. Ham processors are concerned that the moves to reduced salt content to 2.12g per 100g by 2010 and 1.75g by 2012, are related to the [...]
A report by the UN’s food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has revealed that the people of Mediterranean countries are increasingly spurning the traditional low-fat diet of fruit, vegetables and olive oil. The invasion of supermarkets and notably fast-food in countries such as Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal has also led to a huge increase [...]
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