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Afternoon siesta improves heart health
Researchers who studied the siesta habits of nearly 24,000 Greeks over a six-year period have found napping is beneficial to heart health.
Fibre helps protect from breast cancer
Pre-menopausal women who eat 30 or more grams of fibre a day could cut their risk of breast cancer significantly, according to a new study.
Air points for being slim?
American Airlines, in the face of the obesity epidemic, are charging passengers for an extra seat if they are too fat and their bulk spills over into the next seat.
Pass the watercress and reduce the risk of cancer?
Eating watercress, like other cruciferous vegetables, appears to be associated with reduced cancer risk.
Dairy not just good for bones
Researchers from Hawaiian and Californian Universities studied the diets of over 190,000 people in the US and found that higher intakes of calcium were associated with lower rates of colorectal cancer.
Supplement regulation under scrutiny
As at April 2007, a parliamentary select committee is currently examining the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill.
Eyes on the prize: Setting achievable weight loss goals
Advice for those of us who struggle with weight loss goals.
Keeping regular: Your guide to getting enough fibre
We all know we need it, and it’s good for us. But just how do we get enough fibre to keep us healthy?
Eat well, spend less: The beginner's guide to beans
Everything you need to know about that nutritional powerhouse, the humble legume.
How to choose: Fruit juices and drinks
How to navigate the tricky aisles of fruit juices and choose the juice that best suits you.
Health assessment: General Mills
We help a team of General Mills staff with their eating and exercise habits.
Travelling and digestion
Disrupted routines can upset our digestion and consequently affect our bowels. Here are a couple of simple tricks to manage this when you're on holiday.
Fact or fiction: Raw vegetables are better than cooked
Nutritionist Glen Cardwell talks about raw versus cooked vegetables in his book Stop Telling Nutrition Fibs.
Will foods high in cholesterol give me high cholesterol?
If your cholesterol levels are normal, will eating foods high in cholesterol affect you?
Fact or fiction: Cellulite is a build-up of toxins from a bad diet
Don’t we all hate this statement? Cellulite isn’t even a disorder! It’s just what happens to women’s thighs.
Fact or fiction: Your blood type affects the food you can eat
This diet plan became quite popular - but is it really true?
Fact or fiction: Taking vitamins gives you energy
Vitamins give you energy - but will taking extra vitamins make you more energetic?
Fact or fiction: You can spot-reduce fat
Remember the ‘hip and thigh diet’? And we’ve all seen the magazine articles: ‘10 days to a flat stomach’. Wishful thinking or can it really be done?
Fact or fiction: Meat rots in your gut
Does meat take longer than other foods to digest, and does it just sit around inside?
Fact or fiction: Hair test for food allergies
Can you can test for food allergies via kinesiology or hair testing?
Fact or fiction: MSG is bad for you
MSG's taken a bad rap, and you may have heard that it's a nasty chemical added to food and it's bad for you. Is that true?
Fact or fiction: I'm overweight because I have a slow metabolism
Many of us would love to think this was true. We ask endocrinologist Jeremy Krebs for the truth.
Fact or fiction: Margarine is one molecule away from plastic
This does the rounds via email quite regularly. What's the real deal?
Fact or fiction: You need to detox
You need to detox to clear toxins from your body - we hear it every January after the excesses of the festive season.
Fact or fiction: Don't eat protein and carbs together
We've heard that you shouldn’t eat protein and carbs together and fruit must be eaten by itself, or the body becomes too acidic. Do they really fight with each other?
Fact or fiction: Microwaving plastic
Do plastic containers become toxic when you put them in the microwave?
Fact or fiction: Oil is carcinogenic
Does cooking with olive oil change the oil and turn it carcinogenic?
Fact or fiction: Homogenised milk is bad for you
This one crops up sometimes on the Internet. Is it true or false?
Fact or fiction: Spicy foods cause stomach ulcers
We all used to believe this. But now we know: no food will cause an ulcer.
Fact or fiction: Additives banned overseas are used here
It's a commonly-held belief that some food additives banned overseas are still used here. We asked the experts if this is possible.
Fact or fiction: Don't drink with meals
You might hear that you shouldn’t drink with meals as it dilutes the nutrients, or that drinking with meals dilutes digestive enzymes.
Fact or fiction: More protein means bigger muscles
Seeing big, beefy bodybuilders chugging down protein shakes makes it seem like the more protein you eat, the bigger your muscles will get.
Wind problems?
Whilst still considered inappropriate in public, on average we pass wind up to 15 times a day, and up to 40 times is still considered normal.
