Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

A new report has revealed that staple food items have gone up by more then 14 per cent in the last twelve months.
The price comparison website, www.Mysupermarket.co.uk shows that a trolley of basics including bread, milk, cheese, mince meat, fruit and vegetables and rice costs 14.3 per cent more on 7 October than it did [...]

Evidence has been discovered off the coast off Haifa, Israel, showing that human tuberculosis existed as long as 9,000 years ago. Traces of the disease have been found in ancient buried bones.
The human strain of the virus was originally thought to be 6,000 years old, but now researchers at University College London and Tel Aviv [...]

Being depressed seems to be the human condition these days - at least in modern British society. Financial worries, relationship stresses and long working hours all seem to contribute to the strain of every day living. According to mental health charity, Mind, one in five people in the UK are affected by mental health issues [...]

Government officials are cracking down on public drunkenness - especially in women. In new restrictions being introduced, the law will prohibit bars to offer free drinks as well as reducing the amount of free tastings they can offer to women.
A growing concern has been the idea of ‘Happy Hour’ - many experts feel it actively [...]

Britain’s economy may be in the sick bay, but its people’s health is rapidly improving. This may seem a surprise considering the vast coverage of increasing obesity rates. However, new statistics show deaths from cancers, heart disease and suicide are on the decrease.
The Government set a target in 2004 to reduce cancer deaths by 20 [...]

For many, the idea of having a free and continuous flow of wine is merely a far fetched fantasy. But for the residents of Marino - a small town south of Rome in the region where Castelli Romani wine is made, it became a reality!
Each year the town celebrates the annual wine harvest - Sagra [...]

Scientists have announced a new blood test that could be used to determine whether an unborn baby has Down’s syndrome.
The test has been trialled at Stanford University in the United States and looks for specific chromosome abnormalities by looking at a blood sample.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, has reported that the [...]

Patients coping with “unfashionable” cancers are being ignored by scientists despite record spending on cancer research, a new report by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) reveals.
Cancers with high death rates including lung and pancreatic cancer, receive only a small percentage of public money, compared to five cancers holding some of the highest survival rates, [...]

Animal rights group Peta have approached one of the largest and most recognised ice cream producers in the world - Ben & Jerry’s - asking them to use human breast milk in their ice cream. Ben & Jerry’s do currently have some radical sounding flavour names at present - Phish Food anyone? But the unconventional [...]

In one of Einstein’s relatively unknown ponderings, he predicted it would take four years for human society to be eradicated, should honey bees become extinct. The latter is now becoming a reality, as honey bees are mysteriously dying off.
Honey production therefore, has reached crisis level. There are problems world wide with crops not being pollinated [...]