Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Will calorie counting on menus actually help us to eat a more healthy diet?
In the latest ploy to try and enforce healthy eating, the Food Standards Agency wants to introduce a voluntary roll out of calorie counting to restaurants and fast food outlets. A pilot scheme was introduced last year after research by the FSA [...]

That tantalizing smell while you’re frying your food just might give you cancer along with an appetite!
The fumes that result from frying food at high temperatures are known to cause changes in DNA  and may be carcinogenic. Professional chefs are particularly at  risk. Lung cancer rates in China, for example are high among chefs, and [...]

A study has found that less than one in 100 Britons have a healthy diet, preferring high sugar, salt, and fatty foods.

The study found that just eight in 1000 adults – or 0.8 percent – met all five targets for levels of saturated fats, total fats, fruit and vegetables, salt and sugar recommended by [...]

A new ‘health drink’ called Skinny Water, has got nutritionists an food safety campaigners in an uproar, pointing out that the product has not been scientifically proven.

The company’s marketing suits claim the water is guaranteed to suppress hunger and fight fat. Costing 99p per 500ml bottle, the pomegranate-flavoured drink is the latest in a [...]

Researchers have found a pill that has been shown to stop people piling on the pounds after a diet. Alpha-lipoic acid, a dietary supplement widely sold in health food shops, also has an anti-ageing effect.

If you take the pill with a normal diet, nothing obvious happens, but if scientists say that it can “lock [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 carbohydrates are the starches and sugars which are the main providers of energy for keeping the body working and coping with the activities we undertake. Western man has about half his diet in the form of carbohydrate but in the east it constitutes up to 90% usually taken as grains.
The refining of carbohydrates [...]