Diet & Food
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Healthy living helps prevent breast cancer
Women with a family history of breast cancer may benefit from adopting a healthy lifestyle to stave off the disease, researchers say today. Read more
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Frozen vegs win official backing
Frozen vegetables have been given a thumbs up by British health officials – who say they can now be as good as the fresh kind. Read more
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Pear-shape genes found
Scientists have found a series of genes which may decide whether someone piles fat onto their hips or waist, it was announced last night. Read more
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Buffet fad fuels salmonella out-break
The growing popularity of raw bean-sprouts may have triggered an outbreak of the salmonella bug in Britain, investigators revealed today. Read more
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Pregnancy vitamins fail to prevent asthma
A new study has overturned the belief that women who take extra vitamin C and E when pregnant protect their babies from wheezing and asthma. Read more
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Fruit and vegetables key to healthy baby weight
Women who eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables three months before conceiving reduce their chances of having a low weight baby, researchers say today. Read more
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Enriched formula adds fat to children
Efforts to boost the growth of small babies with enriched formula milk may only lead to them accumulating fat as children, researchers have warned. Read more
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Pine-bark extract does not lower blood pressure
Pine-bark extract has no effect in lowering blood pressure or reducing heart disease risk factors, researchers have concluded. Read more
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How unhealthy lifestyle damages work
Workers with unhealthy lifestyles give reduced productivity – only partly because of high rates of sick leave, researchers warn today. Read more
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Mushrooming poison problem
A craze for picking wild mushrooms may be causing dozens of cases of potentially fatal poisoning, a British watchdog has warned. Read more