Children from urban areas may be at a higher risk of obesity due to high levels of pollution, noise and traffic, according to a study published in the journal Environment
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Dr. Aseem Malhotra : The best defense against Coronavirus is optimising metabolic health
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Winter is coming and the current spate of Coronavirus-related news is not encouraging: the pandemic is ravaging Europe, efficient cures are still just over the horizon, and many are prophesizing
With Kellogg’s decision to adopt the much-debated Nutri-Score labelling scheme for its cereal products, the already polarising debate in the EU regarding different food labelling schemes is only set to
While Europeans were indulging in New Year celebrations, debate was growing within the new European Commission. France is once again seeking to impose its Nutri-Score system on other member states.
Scientists have created the first ‘rigorous’ map of the sustainability of global food systems that moves beyond focusing solely on the agriculture-nutrition connection and introduces all the different elements of
Scientists have discovered a distinct class of neurons or brain cells that may control eating behaviours. Consuming fatty foods alters the activity of these neurons in mice, essentially “releasing the
A new study published on 24 June in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal, suggests that drinking coffee may stimulate “brown fat”, the type of fat associated with calorie-burning as opposed
According to a new study published on 16 May in Cell Metabolism, people who ate ultra-processed foods consumed more calories than those on a minimally-processed diet – even though the
Not all fat cells are the same, according to a new paper published on 30 April in Cell Reports. And the makeup of these seemingly diverse fat cell populations could
Unhealthy lifestyles are contributing to a rise in cases of cancer around the world, according to new research from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF). The analysis evaluated evidence spanning