Ra 4 Food - Health and Nutritional Tips

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 [...]

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 [...]

Is the recent economic downturn or ‘credit crunch’ as its generally referred to, not only affecting our bank balance, but also our health? New evidence suggests that this is true.
 
An expert in European public health, Professor Martin McKee, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says much of the research on the issue [...]

Even if you don’t smoke yourself, research has found that if you are married to a smoker it will significantly raise your risk of a stroke.
 
The team form Harvard University looked at records of more than 16,000 people over the age of 50, and their spouses, over a period of nine years. The study, published [...]

 
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 [...]