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Taste buds can be deceived by personal values
Meat eaters may think that they prefer beef to veggie burgers because of the taste, but new research suggests that the reason is likely to be more to do with values than actual taste.
Scientists at the Universities of Sydney and Nashville
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Dietary fibre may reduce risk of pregnancy complication
Eating plenty of fibre during the first three months of pregnancy may reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia, scientists have found.
Pre-elampsia affects around one in ten pregnancies and can prove fatal for both mother and baby in its severest
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Low-carb or Mediterranean diets 'effective'
Low-carbohydrate and Mediterranean diets appear to be just as safe and effective as the standard low-fat diet, according to a new two-year study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researcher Dr Iris Shai, from Ben-Gurion University of
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Tea may reduce dementia risk
Drinking tea regularly appears to reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and mental decline in elderly people, according to scientists in Singapore.
Researchers analysed 2,500 people over the age of 55 and found that just two to three
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Food firms using new mediums to target children
Food companies are not doing enough to curb their marketing of unhealthy products to children and some are using new mediums to influence youngsters, a report has found.
The latest report from Which?, entitled 'Food Fables - the second
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Consumers adopt moderate week-round drinking
British people are moving away from weekend drinking sessions and adopting a more moderate, week-round approach to drinking, a new report suggests.
Research from independent market analyst Datamonitor suggests that there has been a rise in
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Charity gives healthy fish tips
The charity Heart Research UK has published some ideas for how to incorporate plenty of fish into your diet.
Experts at the Food Standards Agency recommend eating two portions of fish every week - including one portion of oily fish - as it
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Pregnancy nut diet may boost child asthma risk
Children whose mothers ate nuts while pregnant appear to be much more likely to develop asthma than children whose mums avoided nuts, scientists have found.
A team of researchers at Utrecht University in The Netherlands found that pregnant
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Low-salt diet 'does not benefit asthmatics'
Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any impact on asthma despite past studies that had suggested a link, scientists have claimed.
Researchers at the University of Nottingham carried out a trial involving nearly 200 asthma
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Alcohol-related heart risk may differ between men and women
Scientists have found that the same amount of alcohol consumption may have vastly differing effects in men and women.
A study at Osaka University in Japan found that while drinking four alcoholic beverages a day may reduce the risk of a
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Pregnancy junk food not necessarily linked to childhood obesity
Eating healthily in pregnancy is advisable but consuming junk food does not necessarily lead to obesity in children, experts have claimed.
Recent research found that pregnant rats which ate a junk food diet were more likely to have obese
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Experts call for research into food compounds
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have called for more research into the health benefits of food compounds after a review highlighted significant gaps in knowledge.
Experts found that, while there is plenty of published research
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