Giving children a taste for vegetables ‘often and early’

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, new research from the University of Leeds suggests.

High-fiber diet linked to lower risk of heart disease

We may have heard it before, but the benefits of eating a healthy diet – with plenty of fiber and fresh vegetables – lie not only in a more lithesome figure, but may also contribute to general heart health, according to new research from the University of Leeds in the UK.The research, published on bmj.

High Fiber Diets Protect From First Time Stroke

If you eat more fiber you will probably have a lower risk of first time stroke, researchers from the University of Leeds’ School of Food Science & Nutrition in Leeds, United Kingdom, reported in the journal Stroke. Dietary fiber comes from plants, the part that our body does not absorb when digesting food.

Researchers Test Benefit Of Fish Oil In Bowel Cancer Spread

Researchers from the University of Leeds will carry out a series of experiments to see whether fish oil can prevent or treat the spread of bowel cancer to the liver…