Big pharma targets alternatives
Pharmaceutical company Merck Consumer Healthcare has questioned the claims of the alternative health product glucosamine by challenging its claims with the European Food Safety Authority.
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EU adopts 222 permitted health claims on foods
The European Union has announced the list of health claims that will be permitted for foods sold in the region in future.
Research identifies 20% fat tax as minimum for effect
Researchers at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom have identified 20% as the rate at which a tax needs to be applied to junk food if it is to be an effective tool for reducing obesity.
Keith’s Take: Eat better for a healthy planet
According to the scientists, we could all eat a lot less chicken and deliver a huge boost to the health of the planet. Such a development could possibly have some buy-in from the chickens as well, especially if it were to mean an end to the barbaric industrial farming methods used to grow them and their eggs.
Battery poultry farming has high environmental cost
New research conducted at Edinburgh University into nitrous oxide emissions by agriculture has identified industrial poultry farming as a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Lose weight with lizard saliva
Drugs developed from the saliva of Gila monsters Heloderma suspectum has been found to effectively reduce hunger in subjects trying to lose weight.
Being sustainable is essential for healthy restaurant business
The co-founder of London’s successful Feng Sushi chain of restaurants, Silla Bjerrum, claims that sustainability is not so much a moral option for restaurants, as it is essential for the health of their business.
Lighten up with a boiled egg
Eggs have emerged from recent tests as a possible champion in the battle with obesity, reversing recent trends that have demonised eggs as too cholesterol rich for a healthy diet.
Cereal award winner set for stardom at The Food Show
Wunderbites, a new food company based in Wellington, is one of the features of this year’s Food Show opening tomorrow (Friday 11) in the capital.
Numbers lining up for fat tax on Australian food
The release of new research by Australian scientists is the latest in a staged argument in favour of the introduction of a fat tax in Australia to reduce the number of diabetes type 2 cases over the next 12 years.
Television ruins your food choices
A survey of United States children aged between 10 and 11 has found a link between television viewing and unhealthy eating. The research was conducted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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