Month: October 2015

The new study will determine whether health and longevity are influenced more by healthy eating or by weight loss. They're recruiting volunteers ages …
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If you're a hot dog lover, you may have beef with a study that finds certain varieties of  hot dogs contain human DNA. The study also concludes that 10 percent of veggie dog brands tested contained meat.Researchers for  Clear Labs, a company that sets standards for food quality, looked at 345 samples of hot dogs and sausages from 75 brands…

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Digesting news this week that the World Health Organization (WHO) had classified beef, lamb and pork as “probable” carcinogens, South Africans said they would take the risk rather than turn their backs on their nation’s social centrepiece. Afrikaans for barbecue, the open-air braai took root among Dutch settlers in the 1600s but over the next three centuries spread across South Africa’s many races as the way to eat and entertain with friends and family. “It’s the one thing that all South Africans love to do, that binds them together – to sit around the fire and braai meat,” said Jan “Braai” Scallens, founder of a campaign to transform a Sept. 24 Heritage Day holiday into National Braai Day.
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The first case in Britain of anthrax in livestock for nearly 10 years has been confirmed by health authorities in Wiltshire, southwest England, where a cow died of the disease last week. “An isolated case of anthrax in a cow has been confirmed at a farm in the Westbury area … following the death of a cow at the end of last week,” the local authority, Wiltshire Council, said in a statement. The cow has now been incinerated and movement restrictions are in place at the farm but the council said there was little risk of human infection.
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Sleeping more will not make you lose weight, but less sleep definitely … “The natural smell of vanilla is the best scent to reduce food cravings, and …
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The U.N. World Health Organization is formally removing Nigeria from the list of polio-endemic countries, meaning the entire African continent is free of the crippling disease.
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PARIS (AP) — Hot dogs, bacon, cold cuts and other processed meats raise the risk of colon, stomach and other cancers, and red meat probably contributes to the disease, too, the World Health Organization said Monday, throwing its considerable authority behind what many doctors have been warning for years.

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