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Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia

Anaemia due to iron deficiency is one of the major cause of morbidity in most of the underdeveloped countries. Children with iron deficiency anemia may be reluctant to take extra vitamins or iron pills, as they are inadvertently inedible. But now Iron-fortified candies were effective for improving the iron status of young children and might be an affordable way to combat iron deficiency...

Sweet corn releases antioxidants on cooking

Effect of antioxidants have always been beneficial to our body. When sweet corn is heated, its antioxidant content is released from the grain, and thereby making it a very healthy addition to one's diet.// There has always been a common misconception that boiling or steaming vegetables and fruits lowers their nutritional content. According to new study, one loses some vitamin C when you heat prod...

Sugar - Sweetened Drinks Found To Increase Risk of Diabetes

New research shows consuming sugar-sweetened soft drinks may increase a woman’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.// For the study researchers followed women between ages 26 and 46 for eight years. At the start of the study, none of the participants had diabetes or any other serious illnesses. Results show women who drank one or more sodas a day gained more weight and were nearly twice...

Sweet May Reduce Weight

Researchers have found that drinking and eating sweets may reduce obesity and weight. Glucocorticodes are stress-reducing hormones, which are produced in the body when the 0person is under stress. This hormone reduces the stress // but is responsible for increase in weight and obesity. The researchers have found that by eating and drinking sweet the hormone level is reduced causing no increase in...

Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?

A statistically significant increase in the incidence of malignant tumors, lymphomas and leukemias in rats exposed to varying doses of aspartame appears // to link the artificial sweetener to a high carcinogenicity rate, according to a study accepted for publication today by the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). The authors of the study, the first to demonstrate multi...

Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener, A Safe Bet!

The long raging debate over the safety of artificial sweeteners got an impetus when a new study confirms. The Calorie Control Council today stated that a rat study conducted by Italy’s Ramazzini Institute //is totally contradictory with the extensive scientific research and regulatory reviews conducted on aspartame. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has said they are not recommending an...

Fructose is a tricker and not all that sweet!

After sucrose it is the turn of fructose to be blamed for obesity by a study in Florida. The study was conducted in the University of Flroda and the findings point that fructose present in fruits//, honey and other natural sources might be the cause of obesity in subjects. The trick is that Fructose makes beleive that the subject is hungrier than actually being and so the result is that...

Sweet pain releiver!

Pain can be easily subsided by administering sweet to children now has a scientific backing by researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center.// They have reported that the analgesic efficacy of sweet taste is influenced both by how much a child likes sweet taste and by the child's weight status. This appears in the Journal Pain. "Some children like sweets not just because the...

Artificial sweetener, Aspartame, may be the potential cause of lymphoma, leukaemia

It has been found through an animal study that Aspartame can cause lymphoma, leukaemia. The study points out that drinking four to five 20-ounce bottles of diet soda sweetened with aspartame each day would be the //cause of cancers. The study would be published in March issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, an US government-run environmental science journal. The method...

Sweet, Sweeter and Sweetest

Food scientists at Ohio State University conducted this study which was self funded. The sweetness of the sweetener depends upon the bitterness or sourness of the sweetener. // The researchers questioned about 30 college students. They were asked to rate 13 different sweeteners and sweet substances. This was done to detect how much bitter, sour and metallic tastes they perceived with each substan...

Understanding how humans detect sweet taste

The research conducted by the scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center described in detail the mechanism behind the detection of sweet// taste by humans. Veronica Galindo-Cuspinera, PhD noted that when saccharin used in high concentration it losses its ability to taste sweet. Then the researcher found that taste perception switches back to sweetness when these high concentrations are rinsed...

Those who relish sweets tend to consume more fruit, study finds

Those who have a soft corner for sweets may end up eating more fruit compared to the people who relish the salt variety, say researchers from Cornell University//. "If we know a person likes one type of food, this kind of study helps us better predict what other types of foods he or she might prefer," said Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab that studies the psy...

Sweet nothings: A fruitful option to assuage the sweet tooth

If you belong to the ubiquitous cult of sweet toothed people, it is very likely that you could even climb a tree to pluck a fruit, incase there isn't one in your reach.// A new study has shown that people with an inclination for sweets tend to consume more fruits than those who prefer salt and spice. Brian Wansink, a Cornell marketing professor who led this research felt that it is im...

Cereal Bars Slammed for More Sugar Than Sweet Snacks

Popular cereal bars have been found to have more sugar and fat than several sweet snacks, according to a new study.// While each of these f 20 well-known bars, mostly marketed to children, would be classified as "high in sugar" under the Food Standards Agency's traffic light labeling scheme, a nutritious-looking Kellogg's Fruit 'n Fibre Bar contained more sugar (10g) than a chocolate P...

Splenda, Nutrasweet, Fda – Secrets Reveale

Dr. Joseph Mercola, a respected osteopathic physician and best known founder and editor of a very popular natural heath website, http://www.mercola.com, has revealed the// secrets of some artificial sweeteners. In his book, "Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health', you'll know the facts behind some artificial sweetener industry. You can watch Dr. Merc...

Poor diabetics: bitter times and worse times with no sweet respite

Despite ground breaking and earth shaking research worldwide the leaders of the world system are falling short of pennies to be shaken out of their piggy banks to save// the poorest of the poor communities marred by diabetes from snow diving into a bleak era which seems to offer little in the form of appropriate care when compared to those who suffer from the same illness in higher socio economi...

High-Tech Microbes Bolsters Natural Sweetener Production

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Badal Saha and collaborators have found that the genetically engineered bacteria that eat hemicellulose in corn fiber// and other sources could set the stage for a new, biobased method of making xylitol, a mint-flavored sweetener used in chewing gum, toothpaste, mouthwash and other products. Xylitol is produced naturally by many fruits and v...

Sweetened Drinks in Sipper Cups Hasten Tooth Decay in Toddlers

Dentists frown down upon the habit of offering fruit juices and sugar added beverages to toddlers in sipper cups.//Apart from mealtimes, its ideally better to avoid sugary drinks in cups with sippers that allow a child to suck up drinks’ aided by the sipper attached. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) pointed out that this can hasten tooth decay. Sipper cups do help to...

‘Sweet Revenge’ on Inflammatory Bowel Diseae

A Leeds University scientist, Simon Carding, has genetically altered or designed bacteria in order to treat inflammatory bowel disease or IBD//. The bacterium ; Bacterium ovatus, one of the ‘good’ bacteria in the human gut, was engineered to produce human growth factors called cytokines. These were used to repair the epithelial calls in the gut damaged by the disease, hence reducing the...

Sedentary Lives Equal Shorter ‘sweeter’ Livs

Being a couch potato can do more than making you look like one. It steers you towards a life of diabetes, and more so if you are a woman//, say researchers. The report published in the journal Diabetes Care, was based on research carried out by lead author Dr. David W. Dunstan and team from the International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia. The researchers reviewed...

A Sweet Step Toward New Cancer Therapies

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—By recognizing sugars, a technique developed by University of Michigan analytical chemist Kristina Hakansson sets the stage// for new cancer diagnosis and treatment options. A growing body of evidence points to assemblies of sugars called glycans attached to proteins on cancer cell surfaces as accomplices in the growth and spread of tumors. Researchers have been keen...

New Age Sweetener Launched for Diabetics

A new age sweetener called ‘Cutkal’ that is aimed for the diabetics, obese and the calorie conscious people has been launched by An India Pharma - USV Ltd//. Cutkal has a combination of Aspartame and Acesulfame-K and the sweetener is the same that is used in diet colas around the world. The US FDA approved Aspartame in 1981 and is used in 6,000 products like beverages, chewing gums, froz...

Cadbury to Introduce Healthier, Low Calorie Sweets to Health Conscious Consumers

Now, chocolate aficionados will not have to think twice before indulging in their favourite treat, for Cadbury Schweppes is planning a new range of low-sugar sweets and chocolates including Dairy Milk Lite in consideration of the changing tastes of health-conscious consumers. In addition, the company is on the brink of launching low-calorie versions of its Maynards Wine Gums and Basset...

Biology, Not Only Parents, Turns Sweet Kids into Delinquents

Not all parents are at fault if their kids take up a life of crime, for a new study has found linked delinquency in children to biology . Rutgers University psychologist, Daniel Hart, and colleagues Nancy Eisenberg and Carlos Valiente of Arizona State University have found that in kids, a highly reactive autonomic nervous system, which regulates our cardiovascular, digestive and res...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

Paraguay is hoping a small herb that is not trafficked, addictive, or even fattening, could to be prove the real thing that the food industry has been waiting for . Stevia -- Latin name stevia rebaudiana bertoni -- has been used for centuries by the Guarani native people to sweeten their drinks, being 300 times sweeter than sugar with none of the calories. Now the 60 c...