Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

Eating disorder charities are concerned that a marked rise in people obsessed with healthy eating may be indicative of a serious psychological condition.
Sufferers typically have strict rules around eating. Certain foods - such as sugar, salt, caffeine, gluten & dairy - are out, as are foods that contain artificial additives or may have come into [...]

A new study suggests that attempting to lose weight solely by reducing the amount of calories consumed is likely to be ineffective.
The research was conducted at Oregon National Primate Research Center using adult female monkeys. Eighteen of the monkeys were fed a high fat diet for a number of years. They were then given a [...]

Losing weight may not always be the healthy thing it’s cracked up to be.
Kate Moss famously said, ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’. Evidence is starting to emerge, however, regarding the potentially damaging effects of extreme dieting on the brain processes, & hence the moods, of those who undertake such weight loss programmes.
At one [...]

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 [...]