All posts tagged "Nutrition"

How attractive your face looks appears to be linked to the kind of food you have just eaten, according to new research in France suggesting that dating trouble can be as much to do with bad manners and bad breath as it is with eating too much processed food. A University of Montpellier team sat over 100 men and women down for a series of tests, asking them questions about their eating habits, making them eat food laden with refined carbohydrates before having them rate other participants' physical attractiveness based on photos taken 2 hours after the feeding. "Consuming the high-glycemic brea......

You might be tempted to go on an all-out fast at the start of the year, particularly if the holiday period was marked by excess. Try and avoid that temptation, nutritionists say, and if you are scaling back your intake, go about it with thought and care. Avoid extreme fasting, says German nutrition expert Regina Ensenauer. One way to start is eating a little less at your regular meals. "Paying attention to quantities is a tip that applies to all age groups," says Ensenauer, who is head of the Institute of Paediatric Nutrition at the Max Rubner Institute in Karlsruhe. Whatever your routine, mak......

Supermarkets offer a slew of meat alternatives nowadays but it is not always clear how healthy they are. A specialist provides some tips on navigating the various lists of ingredients, nutritional values and degree of processing so you can pick the healthiest choice. Ideally, meat substitute products should have as short a list of ingredients as possible, says nutrition expert Daniela Krehl from the Bavarian Consumer Advice Centre in Germany. Products with lots of artificial additives, flavourings and preservatives are best avoided. If you want to be on the safe side, meat substitutes with an ......

ELKO, Nev. — On a cold morning in early February, Tammy King prepared and loaded boxes and bags of vegetables, fruits, milk, frozen meat, and snacks into cars lined up outside the Friends in Service Helping food pantry, known in rural northeastern Nevada as FISH. The beginning of the month is busy for the food pantry, King said, because people who receive benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, come to stock up on free food that helps them stretch their monthly allotments. The food pantry, one of a few in this city of about 20,000 people, serves more......