Breast cancer was a rare disease in 1900. Today, by some estimates, one in every eight women will contract breast cancer, many during their childbearing years. The literature on breast cancer show ...
Many of us could do with a major rethink of our daily dietary fat intake. For some, this will mean cutting back while, for others, it means reorganising our diets to eat more or different types of fats.
Pregnant women who use margarines and other processed foods that contain trans fatty acids derived from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils may be seriously damaging the development of their children.
TRANS FATTY ACIDS: The hidden killers in our food
Dutch margarine manufacturers are reducing the levels of trans fatty acids in their products in the next 12 months. Levels will fall to below 5 per cent immediately, and to just 1 per cent within ...
Just when you thought you'd got it straight that trans fatty acids found in margarine can cause a heart attack, new research covering nine countries seems to put it in the clear. ...
Margarine is more likely to give you a heart attack than butter, as every newspaper has told you recently. As a result of this publicity, the makers of Flora Britain's best-selling margarine have ...
Says Allen Spiegel, who heads the US National Diabetes Institute, 'People cringe at the word epidemic, but by all criteria, we are witnessing an epidemic of diabetes.'