Archive for January, 2007

SUPER FOODS - Mirror.co.uk


SUPER FOODS
Mirror.co.uk, UK - Jan 16, 2007
White tea is made from the tenderest buds of the plant and therefore has the most healthy ingredients. Studies suggest it has even more cancer-fighting ...

About Children’s Packed Lunches

Packed lunches taken to school by 7-year olds are even less healthy than school meals used to be before Jamie Oliver set out to reform them. The Children of the 90s study, based at the University of Bristol, revealed today that in the year 2000, school meals were every bit as bad a Jamie Oliver suggested - but that children given packed lunches instead were even worse off nutritionally........

Obese Patients Fair Better

Scientists report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was linked to a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. For every 5-unit increase in body mass, the odds of risk-adjusted mortality fell 10 percent. The finding held when adjusted for age, sex, blood urea nitrogen, blood pressure, and additional prognostic factors........

10 Innovations to look for in 2007 - Louisville Courier-Journal


10 Innovations to look for in 2007
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - 7 hours ago
No one's done any clinical studies on the health benefits, but it has to fall into the "can't hurt" category. Expect more copycats and research to follow. ...

Junk medicine: healthy foods - Times Online


Junk medicine: healthy foods
Times Online, UK - 7 hours ago
In the end, only double- blind prospective trials — in which one group is given white tea, another black, and a third no tea at all — would settle the ...