Eating well may help stave off depression later on in life, a new study claims. But people who are partial to fatty processed foods may be up to twice as likely to suffer from depression than their healthy eating counterparts, according to the study conducted at University College London. The research, which linked dietary habits [...]
The European Food Safety Authority has issued the first in a series of opinions debunking many of the claims of so-called ‘health foods’, reports Dara Gantly Just because you’ve never seen a rabbit with sunburn doesn’t mean the beta-carotene in carrots provides any immunity to UV-radiation. This may sound obvious, and somewhat bizarre, but some [...]
A European Union (EU) initiative to change children’s eating habits for the better was launched this week. The campaign called ‘Eat it, Drink it, Move it: the EU’s Tasty Bunch’ is financed by the EU agriculture budget. Over eight weeks, Tasty Bunch characters will travel through Belgium, northern France, the UK, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and [...]
Two new Irish-made DVDs for patients with PKU, and their families, aim to help them to make the necessary lifestyle changes. The National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) has launched two DVDs to explain PKU (phenylketonuria) to parents and to demonstrate low-protein cookery. A low-protein diet is an important treatment in the lives of [...]
Despite the importance of iodine in the diet of pregnant women, Ireland and the UK have low levels of consumption. Dara Gantly reports on Irish involvement in a new study measuring iodine levels across the UK. An Irish laboratory is to test the urinary iodine levels of 1,200 children from across the UK as part [...]
Niamh Mullen speaks to a doctor, now living in Ireland, who has dedicated many years of his career to tackling the problem of malnutrition in Africa. Dr Steve Collins has not had a conventional career in medicine. He has spent more than 20 years fighting famine in Africa, set up two multinational companies and now [...]
Nutricia has launched Infatrini in a new 500ml pack for tube feeding. Infatrini is a high energy, nutritionally complete formula for the dietary management of infants with faltering growth or who have increased nutritional requirements and/or require fluid restriction. Infatrini is the only high energy infant formula now available in a pack for tube feeding. [...]
Dr Paul Stewart writes on the importance of food as medicine and he highlights an awards scheme for doctors and for medical students with an interest in nutrition. Food, the first generic drug, is also sometimes the first drug of choice for patients — if not for doctors seeing patients — with the brand varying [...]
Hospital meals — and food brought into hospitals by relatives and friends — can be an important part of a patient’s recovery process. When we think of hospital care, we tend to automatically think of the tests carried out on patients, the medications prescribed by doctors and the care offered by nursing staff. Hospital food [...]
Dear Editor, The Irish Heart Foundation is greatly concerned about the quality of breakfast cereals targeted at children. A survey, published by the Consumers Association of Ireland found that 100 per cent of the cereals specifically targeted at children did not meet all of the criteria for healthy levels of fibre, salt, sugar or saturated [...]
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