Can a bacteria toothpaste really fight tooth decay?
Probiotic products used to come mainly in capsules and yoghurts, but now you can get snacks, toothpastes and drinks, too. We asked experts to assess a selection and we then rated them. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High blood pressure warning: Fruity yoghurt could be raising your blood pressure reading
HIGH blood pressure is easily reversed by making healthy dietary decisions and sticking to them. While some dietary items are clearly off-limits, some ostensibly healthy items can raise your risk. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - December 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The breakfast snack to help you live longer and avoid heart disease symptoms
HOW TO live longer: Prevent an early death by eating a healthy, balanced diet, and by doing regular exercise. But you could also increase your life expectancy by adding more low-fat yoghurt for breakfast. It could even lower your risk of developing heart disease symptoms. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The breakfast food that could stimulate hair growth and lower your risk of hair loss
HAIR loss is a common condition that affects many people in the UK - but it can be upsetting. You could treat alopecia, or lower your chances of losing your hair, by simply eating more of this breakfast food. Should you consider eating more Greek yoghurt to stimulate hair growth? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ads for butter, cheese and ketchup may be banned before 9pm
Critics say the measure will also ban adverts in Britain before the watershed for yoghurts, raisins, tinned fruit, and many other products 'no reasonable person would consider to be unhealthy'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
As Covid-19 persists around the world, death is not the only outcome to fear | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
There are worrying trends about long-term damage, even in those with milder symptomsDownload the free Guardian app to get the most important news notificationsCoronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statisticsThere are a lot of unknowns about Covid-19. This makes sense, because despite six months of the most amazing scientific effort of our lifetimes, the coronavirus is a novel disease which means that we are constantly finding out new things about it. Even now, the debate about the most likely method of spread of the disease rages on, in part because the idea of masks has in many places become somehow a pol...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 12, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Health Australia news Science Source Type: news
High blood pressure - the 50p breakfast snack to lower your chances of deadly hypertension
HIGH blood pressure risk could be lowered by making some diet or lifestyle changes. You could lower your chances of developing deadly hypertension symptoms and signs by adding this cheap snack to your breakfast routine. Should you be eating more yoghurt? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Trendy vegan yoghurts and desserts can contain MORE sugar than dairy ones
Researchers at the University of Leeds analysed 893 popular yoghurts and similar dessert products. Vegan products can be made of 20 per cent sugar even if they are deemed healthier. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Gene editing will let us control our very evolution. Will we use it wisely? | Dan Rather
I ’ve covered some of the biggest stories of our age, but this is the biggest and could change what it means to be humanWe live in a time when science and technology are having an impact on our society in more and more ways. And the decisions that shape how these new fields of knowledge develop ultimately affect all of us.Related:Human Nature review – quiet revolution that began in a yoghurt potContinue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 8, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Dan Rather Tags: Gene editing Science Genetics Medical research Ethics Biochemistry and molecular biology UK news Source Type: news
Human Nature review – quiet revolution that began in a yoghurt pot
An engrossing documentary about a breakthrough in molecular biology with enormous implications for treating genetic diseasesThis documentary from Adam Bolt and Regina Sobel is about a revolution that has been quietly taking place in molecular biology and medicine: a revolution compared here to the invention of the internet but gaining a fraction of the attention. (The more pertinent comparison may be with nuclear energy.) It is the innovation of gene editing and CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), a crucial pattern of DNA sequences in micro-organisms that allows them to resist viral infectio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 4, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Peter Bradshaw Tags: Documentary films Culture Biology Science Source Type: news
50% European food has too much sugar, salt or fat for children
Researchers looked at nearly 3,000 breakfast cereals, yoghurts, ready meals and processed meats and seafood on supermarket shelves in 20 EU countries. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stomach bloating: This ‘friendly bacteria’ yoghurt may help to soothe the tummy swelling
STOMACH bloating is a common cause of grief in the UK. There a number of ways to alleviate symptoms. Yoghurts that can contain a certain friendly bacteria may help to beat the bloat. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - July 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How 'light' and 'low fat' foods thought to be healthier can contain up to THREE TIMES more sugar
Yeo Valley's Natural Yoghurt has 82 calories and 5g of sugar per 100g. By contrast, the brand's Organic 0% Fat Vanilla Yogurt has 81 calories and almost three times the amount of sugar (14g). (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Five tricks of the senses
Why using a white spoon can be preferable to a black one when eating yoghurt and other quirks of human perceptionResearchers in Philadelphia revealed last week thattastebuds also bear odour-detecting proteins, calling into question the idea that smell and taste come together in the brain to produce flavour. According to Dr Mehmet Hakan Ozdener, his findings open up the possibility of using smells to trick us into healthier eating, for example by adding a low-concentration odour to food to make it taste sweeter and thereby reduce sugar intake.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 28, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Lisa Wehrstedt Tags: Biology Science Technology Source Type: news
Probiotic yoghurts could be harmful because 'good bacteria could EVOLVE'
In a study on mice by a team at Washington University, bacteria in the probiotics ate the protective coating of the intestines - which can lead to irritable bowel syndrome. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
