There’s been an almighty spat about fish oil capsules which started a number of years ago and has recently re-ignited.
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Is a coffee habit coded in your genes?
New research suggests that how much coffee a person drinks each day and how it’s metabolised could be influenced by their genes.
Can athletes excel on a vegetarian diet?
Researchers compare the competitive endurance of vegetarian and omnivorous athletes, and if vegetarian athletes can perform just as well as their omnivore opponents. The results are surprising.
What does a good diet really mean?
Australian research has found that focusing on your whole diet rather than obsessing on individual nutrients pays off in terms of obesity and blood pressure. The study scored the diets of 5,000 men and women.
Diet clues to surviving cancer
A research team collated together 117 studies involving over 200,000 cancer survivors into a single meta-analysis. What they found was perhaps not too surprising.
Why does weight go back on?
Research into a drug for type 2 diabetes may inadvertently help to explain that weight regain for people that diet to lose weight is not a simple matter of poor self-control.
Can probiotics ease an irritable bowel?
Probiotics are a common supplement taken by people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) however new research suggests probiotics may not be provide the relief sufferers of IBS are seeking.
Is there a link between dairy food and chronic kidney disease?
Researchers studied a group of older adults to assess whether consumption of dairy products and total calcium intake reduced the incidence of Chronic kidney disease (CDK) over a 10 year period. This is what they found.
Can eating eggs help an egg allergy?
Researchers looked at whether the supervised, stepwise introduction of egg in infants with eczema reduced the incidence of egg allergy at one year of age.
Is saturated fat bad for the heart?
Researchers investigate the association between individual saturated fatty acids like lauric, myristic, palmitic and stearic acids and the risk of coronary heart disease.
