Tag Archives: Health

Put Down That Pastry

Express

Greggs hoping to attract customers without hangovers.

GREGGS is targeting a slice of the healthy eating market, which could see it selling salads, pasta and fresh fruit alongside its sausage rolls. Chief executive Ken McMeikan said the group was also looking to build on its ­successful meal-deals move into the breakfast market by adding take-home offerings to the menu.

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Debunked: No 1. Fat Food Myth

Civil Eats

If you’ve not been following the gentle dismantling of 50 years worth of leap-of-faith healthy eating advice regarding fat, catch up now.

The low-fat trend finally appears to be on its way out. The notion that saturated fats are detrimental to our health is deeply embedded in our Zeitgeist—but shockingly, the opposite just might be true. For over 50 years the medical establishment, public health officials, nutritionists, and dieticians have been telling the American people to eat a low-fat diet, and in particular, to avoid saturated fats. Only recently, have nutrition experts begun to encourage people to eat “healthy fats.”

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Wake Up To The Power Of The Cock… Comb

Food Safety News
*Gobble Gobble* Looking forward to the marketing of chicken heads as a tasty snack
If it helps reduce the inflammation in the arthritic knees of racehorses, a little in your yogurt or other dairy product couldn't hurt, could it? We are talking about turning rooster's combs into a food ingredient, or a "novel" food ingredient, as they call it in Europe. Rooster combs are the large fleshy red skin on top the cockerel's head and, like shark fins and elephant tusks, cockerel comb extract is thought to have some almost magical powers.
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Tucking Into Your Couch Potatoes

ZeeNews.com
Reasons not to watch five consecutive episodes of Come Dine With Me today
A new research has found that eating while watching TV can cause hunger later on, which could make one more likely to indulge in late-night snacks. The study conducted on young women found that those who ate while watching television packed away more calories later in the day, reports the Daily Mail. It is thought that being able to remember what we have eaten is key to feeling full. And if distractions stop us from forming those memories, we eat more later on.
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