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Redwoods Foods Wins Foods For Life Healthier Food Award 2006: "Redwoods Foods wins Foods For Life nutritious and delicious Awards 2006

The new stars of healthy Vegetarian and Vegan catering, Redwood Wholefoods, have won yet another Award to add to their impressive list of achievements. The Foods For Life Nutritious and Delicious Award 2006"




Innovation in Health Foods Rewarded

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Even Light Alcohol intake affects unborn baby

bmj.com - Foetus affected by even moderate alcohol consumption in pregnancy

Light drinking has impact on unborn
Source: Financial Times
Date: 26/05/2006
The Financial Times is the only newspaper to feature the news that a new study has suggested even light to moderate drinking early in pregnancy can lead to cognitive problems in young children. The study, jointly conducted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Washington, is based on data collected from 611 mother-child pairs, and has revealed that modest drinking - particularly during the second trimester - is associated with lower IQs in children at 10 years of age. Women were assessed during each trimester of pregnancy, and again with their children at birth, at eight and 18 months, and at three, six and ten years of age. At age 10 the children's cognitive ability was evaluated using verbal, quantitative, and short-term memory tests. The result was especially pronounced among African-American rather than Caucasian children, however, Jennifer Willford, lead author of the study, said that this racial discrepancy was not due to differences in the amount or pattern of alcohol use during pregnancy or by variations in socioeconomic status.

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Dairy Council slams McCartney wife milk health claims

Dairy Council slams McCartney wife milk health claims Dr Judith Bryans, director of The Dairy Council, said the claims were "irresponsible, biased and inaccurate"

Removing all dairy products from the diet could have serious health implications, she said.It was important to remember that Ms Mills McCartney and Professor Plant were not qualified dieticians or nutritionists and their views were based on personal experiences, she added.

COMMENT - The Dairy Council will have to do better than try to wrongly rubbish Proffessor Jane Plant's credentials - she is a life fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine so has some very influential and highly qualified friends! The other speaker was Professor Campbell , Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell and most of their claims are backed up by The World Health Organisation. The VVF event was stowed out and there were only a few spare seats at the launch of White Lies at Guys Hospital on Wednesday night.

Interesting that the Dairy Council described it as innacurate before they'd even read it! Hypocritical in light of this research that they call it irresponsible and biased.

There was a 2 ft stack of research to back up these claims and peer reviewed sound science discussed by the nutritional experts.

There are few independant researchers left in this world, someone has to pay the bills and to hear these people speak without a big global pharmaceutical company pulling the strings is compelling.

More than half of the world's peoples don't consume milk and have strong bones and far less incidents of key cancers than us. The more you look into it the more worrying it is for the UK Dairy Industry.

Telling young girls to drink milk for beauty is not the answer - the gamble that fat in milk will win over the sugar in cola in the healthier skin stakes could seriously backfire in the face of Dairy Council executives.

As Marks and Spencer and St Ivel ensure Vegetarians reduce milk consumption by adding in fish oil the future for UK Dairy Farmers looks bleak.
The Dairy Council needs to go back to the drawing board and stop wasting The Farmer's money.

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Mushrooms-Vegan Vitamin D Source

ABC News: Mushrooms Are Unlikely Source of Vitamin D

Zapping Mushrooms with Ultra Violet light can produce vast amounts of Vitamin D says FDA at their annual science forum.

The ongoing work so far has found that a single serving of white button mushrooms the most commonly sold mushroom will contain 869 percent the daily value of vitamin D once exposed to just five minutes of UV light after being harvested . If confirmed, that would be more than what's in two tablespoons of cod liver oil, one of the richest and most detested natural sources of the vitamin, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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Toxic fish oil contains cancerous chemicals

Boots Omega 3 fatty acid Fish Oil is Toxic

Stories in Wednesday April 12 Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror confirm that Boots has withdrawn supplies of its own-brand Super Strength Fish Oil Capsules because of illegally high levels of dioxins. The scare follows a recent move by Seven Seas to pull certain cod liver supplements due to a similar contamination. Dioxins are environmental pollutants and are usually removed during the manufacturing process, however, tests on two batches of the Boots capsules found levels to exceed the legal limit of two micrograms per kilo. Despite the illegal levels, both Boots and the Food Standards Agency reported that the levels that were present would not pose a risk to people's health, with an FSA spokesperson assuring consumers that: "The threat from dioxins comes from exposure over a long period of time - continued exposure at high levels. These are above the statutory level but do not pose a threat to health."

As reported on BMJ.com

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All Headline News - Barbecue Meat May Cause Prostate Cancer - April 8, 2006

All Headline News - Barbecue Meat May Cause Prostate Cancer - April 8, 2006

A study presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research linked eating charred meat with a higher risk of prostate cancer.

A compound, called PhIP, is formed when meat is charred at high temperatures, as is the case when cooking on a barbecue grill. Researchers reported that PhIP has been found to encourage the growth of prostate cancer

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Chicken With Arsenic? Is That O.K.? - New York Times

Chicken With Arsenic? Is That O.K.? - New York Times:

By MARIAN BURROS Published: April 5, 2006

ARSENIC may be called the king of poisons, but it is everywhere: in the environment, in the water we drink and sometimes in the food we eat.

Food Culture The amount is not enough to kill anyone in one fell swoop, but arsenic is a recognized cancer-causing agent and many experts say that no level should be considered safe. Arsenic may also contribute to other life-threatening illnesses, including heart disease and diabetes, and to a decline in mental functioning.

Yet it is deliberately being added to chicken in this country, with many scientists saying it is unnecessary. Until recently there was a very high chance that if you ate chicken some arsenic would be present because it has been a government-approved additive in poultry feed for decades. It is used to kill parasites and to promote growth."

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