HIV – The Importance Of A Healthy Diet

This year’s World AIDS Day on the 1 December 2011 enjoys the full support of the British Dietetic Association (BDA). The BDA, which also has a specialist initiative called Dietitians in HIV and AIDS (DHIVA), highlights the vital importance of good nutrition for those living with HIV and AIDS…

Treating Corneal Disease With Vitamin B-Based Medication May Offer Some Patients A Permanent Solution

Patients in the United States who have the cornea-damaging disease keratoconus may soon be able to benefit from a new treatment that is already proving effective in Europe and other parts of the world. The treatment, called collagen crosslinking, improved vision in almost 70 percent of patients treated for keratoconus in a recent three-year clinical trial in Milan, Italy…

Women Should Eat More Chocolate !

Good news for women and confectionary makers around the world, with new research showing health benefits from eating more chocolate. The article published in the Oct 18th issue of Journal of the American College of Cardiology studied more than 33,000 Swedish women who did not have any medical history of stroke, heart disease, cancer or diabetes and were between the ages of 49 and 83…

How To Reduce Your Risk Of Breast Cancer – Dietitians’ Viewpoint

In the USA breast cancer incidence is the highest in the world, at 128.6 cases per 100,000 Caucasian women, and 112.6 per 100,000 African Americans.

Kids’ Packed Lunch Can Breed Foodborne Illness; Keep Them Cold

Even though the United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world, there are still millions of cases of foodborne illness each year.

Send Your Child To School With A Healthy And Cold Lunch

Even though the United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world, there are still millions of cases of foodborne illness each year.

Athletes’ Health Boosted By Non-Alcoholic Wheat Beer

Many amateur athletes have long suspected what research scientists for the Department of Preventative and Rehabilitative Sports Medicine of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen at Klinikum rechts der Isar have now made official: Documented proof, gathered during the world’s largest study of marathons, “Be-MaGIC” (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular sy…

Inorganic Arsenic Levels Forces Pfizer To Kill Dated Chicken Drug

The United States’ poultry industry is the world’s largest producer and second largest exporter of poultry meat. Now, a 67 year old, yes 67, year old drug used to control coccidiosis in chickens is being pulled from the usage market

New Report Equates Dried Fruits And Fresh Fruits

Internationally recognized health researchers presented their views at the 30th World Nut & Dried Fruit Congress on 21 May 2011, recommending that food policy makers consider dried fruits equivalent to fresh fruits in dietary recommendations around the world…

Will Ronald McDonald Be Forced To Retire This Week At Age 40?

Okay, what’s the beef? Ronald McDonald, one of the world’s most recognizable clowns, has been the company’s mascot since 1971 is being threatened with early retirement at age 40. Nutrition advocates say the tall clown is not scary, but pushing kids to eat unhealthy which in turn contributes to the fast growing global epidemic of childhood obesity

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