Dear all Please find below an update on all the latest news stories impacting our industry: Daily Mail: In a study of nearly 2,000 people, the more rice they ate, the better they rated the quality of their sleep. Researchers also compared how much bread or noodles were consumed, but the same link was not found. Just how it works is not clear, but rice has a high glycaemic index or GI - a measure of how quickly carbohydrates are broken down into sugar in the blood. High GI foods increase levels of a protein called tryptophan that is used by the body to make the brain chemical serotonin, which is known to induce sleep. dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2734120/Cant-sleep-Try-eating-rice-High-GI-food-increases-levels-protein-used-make-serotonin-known-induce-sleep.html Daily Mail: The latest boost to wellbeing is the humble olive leaf. It was once a folk remedy revered by the Greeks, while ancient Egyptians used it for mummifying royalty. But a drink made from olive leaf extract – taken from freshly picked Italian organic olive leaves - is the first health supplement of its kind to be launched in Britain. dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2732315/Olive-LEAF-key-heart-health-say-experts-drink-using-ingredient-launches-Britain.html Daily Express: Sales of blenders and juice makers have gone through the roof while a host of celebrities, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson, are aficionados. It seems barely a day passes without yet another juice detox, diet or cleanse emerging. You can spend a fortune on equipment. But more recently there has been a juicing and smoothie backlash, with experts warning about sugar content and saying these drinks might not be all they are hyped up to be. express.co.uk/life-style/health/503195/Juicing-Guide-Are-healthy-juices-worth-hype Daily Express: While seafood, fish and animals that eat fish are good sources of iodine, seaweed concentrates it with levels in kelp up to 100,000 times greater than in the surrounding water. Seaweed is also packed with other nutrients including calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, selenium, manganese and iron. express.co.uk/life-style/health/503176/Superfood-seaweed-help-your-thyroid Daily Telegraph: Expert Q&A: Organic food costs lots more but is it really better for us? And if something’s free range, does that mean it’s also organic? telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/lifecoach/11050896/Life-coach-is-organic-food-really-better-for-us.html Daily Mail: While many glossy A-listers embark on gruelling three-day juice cleanses, Madeleine Shaw, a celebrity nutritionist, says that having a juice a day alongside your regular diet can have lots of health benefits. dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2733658/Want-look-like-Millie-Mackintosh-Nutritionist-inspired-clean-green-lifestyle-shares-super-fit-stars-one-day-juicing-plan.html BBC News, ITV News: The Faculty of Public Health said conditions like rickets were becoming more apparent because people could not afford quality food in their diet. It comes after health figures recently revealed a 19% increase in the number of people admitted to hospital with malnutrition over the past year. Vice president of the Faculty of Public Health, John Middleton, said food-related ill health was getting worse through extreme poverty and the use of food banks.Its getting worse because people cant afford good quality food. Its getting worse where malnutrition, rickets and other manifestations of extreme poor diet are becoming apparent.” bbc.co.uk/news/health-28883892 itv/news/update/2014-08-22/food-poverty-is-causing-illness-health-expert-warns/ Daily Mail: Clinical trials of quack alternative medicines should be stopped because they are damaging and financially wasteful, two leading critics have said. U.S. scientists, professor of surgery and oncology at Wayne State University, David Gorski, and Steven Novella, an assistant professor in neurology at Yale School of Medicine, launched a scathing attack of treatments including aromatherapy, homeopathy and reiki. The article comes just weeks after Conservative MP David Tredinnick praised the fact herbal remedies and healing were now becoming accepted in parts of the NHS, and called for astrology to be incorporated into the health service. dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2730008/Clinical-trials-quack-alternative-medicines-stopped-damaging-waste-money-say-two-leading-experts.html Daily Express: Health food experts Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley share the essential superfoods for looking and feeling well express.co.uk/life-style/diets/501643/Foodies-Jasmine-Melissa-Hemsley-10-rules-eating-well Please let me know if you have any questions or queries. Regards Linda Linda Phillips Office Manager Health Food Manufacturers Association 1 Wolsey Road East Molesey Surrey KT8 9EL Tel: 020 8481 7100 Fax: 020 8481 7101 email: [email protected] website: hfma.co.uk
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:28:20 +0000
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