Despite massive efforts to promote the 5-a-day message, the average
UK consumer is still not eating enough fruit and vegetables, finds
a national survey carried out by the UK's Food Standards Agency and
the Department of Health....
Aiming to profit from current booming calcium supplement sales,
Swiss health foods company Wander has launched a powdered calcium
supplement on the home market under the Jemalt brand.
Eating a diet with less fat and more carbohydrates could lead to a
modest but significant reduction in body weight - whatever the US
fad no-carbo Atkins diet claims. The question is, does the type of
carbohydrate, simple or complex,...
Grape-seed extract may help skin wounds heal faster and with less
scarring, a new study from researchers in Ohio State University, US
suggests. Treating both animal and human wounds with the extract,
the team found that it helped...
Dutch supplier of nutritional oils Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition
reported this week that its CLA product Clarinol has been shown to
significantly reduce body fat in women.
The vitamin and dietary supplement market will continue to grow
despite increasing sector maturity, driven by greater consumer
interest, ageing populations and a greater emphasis on self-care,
suggests a new report by market analysts...
Despite the UK's position as one of the richest countries in the
world, a conference in London will hear this week that a growing
number of British people on low incomes are poorly nourished.
Wassen International has launched a new ginseng supplement, with
added vitamins and minerals, in the UK this week. Gerimax, a
concentrated, standardised ginseng extract, has already been
marketed in Denmark and other European countries...
People who eat fish with a raised mercury content run a greater
risk of coronary heart disease than previously thought, an
international team of researchers reports in the recent issue of
the New England Journal of Medicine.
British consumers can tuck in to mince pies and Christmas cake
without worrying about the quality of the dried fruit ingredients,
according to a survey by the UK's Food Standards Agency.
While bottled water consumption in the UK is on the increase, most
of this is being driven by adults. But a new report commissioned by
the leading British bottled water company Highland Spring shows
that kids, who are rarely catered...
Taking large doses of popular mineral and vitamin supplements over
a long period of time can have a major impact on health, according
to a recent report. A case where a teenager increased the
recommended dosage of zinc supplements...
