Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

 As support mounts for the campaign to ban junk food from nurseries, surely the Government must finally take action.
Many people are unaware that existing standards & regulation that apply to primary & secondary schools do not cover nurseries, where practices which would be unacceptable in schools are widespread. The potential effects for the future development [...]

Mephedrone is the latest in a line of legal recreational drugs to hit the club scene in the UK.
In some countries Mephedrone has been banned. Here it can legally be bought cheaply & easily under the pretext of plant food or fertilizer, or research drugs. A quick google search brings up suppliers who promise to [...]

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 [...]

Government watchdog makes an unexpected u-turn in the fight to help us separate the ‘good’ from the ‘bad’ in our shopping basket.
Four years ago following extensive research, the government’s Food Standards Agency recommended a system of traffic light labels to help people make healthy choices when buying food. The scheme is an attempt to tackle [...]

On the lookout for the ultimate convenience food? Read on!
Until relatively recently the Department of Health was advising us that seafood was bad for our health, but in 2006 government scientists changed their minds and decided it was good for us after all! For over twenty years mussels were considered to be bad for the [...]

Environmental groups slam the decision as a threat to human health, while two of its member countries express their opposition.
It is twelve years since there was European approval for a genetically modified crop until yesterday when the European Commission in Brussels authorized the cultivation of a genetically modified potato crop. The Amflora potatoes to be [...]

Bacteria sprayed into the air when a toilet is flushed can travel up to eight feet!
When a toilet is flushed, miniscule droplets are propelled into the air outwards and upwards, landing on any available surfaces within approximately six to eight feet. Known as the aerosol effect, the problem was identified way back in the seventies, [...]

We tend to think of soup as a healthy, comforting food, but the high levels of hidden salt it contains present a very real risk to our health.
High levels of salt are linked to high blood pressure, and increase the risk of having a heart attack or stroke. There is growing evidence that it is [...]

New research suggests that while sufferers of diabetes may use a high protein diet as a means of controlling the condition, dolphins, conversely, seem to have developed a diabetes like state in order to support their high protein diet.
About 2 million people in the uk have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It can lead [...]

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 [...]