Vitamins should not be used after exercise
The sales of vitamins have grown over the past few years to a level where more or less everyone buys some sort of vitamin product within their shopping as a matter of course. These are packaged as being good for people who are young, old and those who like to keep fit.
The benefits are clear [...]
McDonald’s $100 million worth of coffee marketing
When time start to get tough on the high street it is the toughest of the bunch of all who will survive and as times are tough now. It seems that the major battleground will be over coffee and the big hitters are already planning their attacks.
It is McDonalds who are coming out with all [...]
Dog food good enough to eat
How bad would it have to be before people resorted to eating dog food? Well as bad, as it may sound in cases dog food is actually comparable if not better than some foods that have been prepared for human consumption.
Of course, it has to be a special kind of dog food, but over the [...]
Tuna extinct by 2012!
It seems that Tuna has been on the global diet for decades, most commonly it was found in tins, but recently there has been an increased in fresh tuna, not only in restaurants but available in super markets too.
What this means is that the stocks of tuna are falling, in a similar manner as the [...]
A stores dream, bacon aroma
If there is one smell that could even turn the strictest of vegetarians into a meat eater, even if it is only for a few seconds, it is the smell of bacon.
It is the smell that stops people in their tracks and there is a good reason for it. It seems that there is a [...]
Getting more fibre
Whatever diet you look at there is more than likely going to be some sort of element of fibre required, this is essential for healthy living. But with so much being spoken about how good fibre is for us, but how can good sources of fibre be introduced into an already balanced diet.
Below are some [...]
Some food colours are just wrong
We often see foods that have been dyed for special occasions, this is normally a one off event for certain days of the year, but oddly coloured food does not necessarily have to be just for one day only.
There are foods that have been brought out which are in a colour that we do [...]
The pizza vending machine
During the eighties and nineties there was a surge in the use of vending machines, these machines were providing more or less everything that a hungry worker could want and even provided microwaves to heat the food up in.
However, that soon faded with the healthy eating brigade claiming that food from these machines were no [...]
Salt worry for youngsters
Just walking around an average supermarket will show that we rely heavily on processed foods. These foods are good for busy people who are working and bringing up children, but may not be too good for the diet.
It seems that children some aged as young as eight are getting more particular on their diet, and [...]
Eating your veg is not so good
For as long as anyone can remember children and adults have been told to eat their fruit and veg, but according to recent research by Donald R. Davis, a former research associate with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, we need to much more than we first thought.
This is not because [...]
Valentine’s Day screw by M&M’s
As most people suspect, when a confectionary company produce special packs like those for Easter, Christmas and valentine’s day, these special, yet nice looking versions of the product are simply money making machines for the company.
The only true way to find out the value of these products is to take the rare material, which is [...]
Coffee no go for pregnant mums
Coffee should be off the shopping list for pregnant mums as recent research has revealed that it could increase the possibility of their babies developing cancer.
It is the caffeine in the coffee that causes the problem. As it is thought that caffeine can damage the babies DNA while it is still in the womb. This [...]
Brits shopping for foods they do not like
In a quest for a healthy life style, many people in the UK are forcing themselves to go out shopping for foods that they really do not like simply because they are taking notice of the claims that these foods are the healthy option.
Millions of people are trawling the supermarket shelves for liver, marmite, lentils [...]
Good night’s sleep saves hundreds in cold remedies
Over the winter months consumers spends millions if not billions of pounds on treatments for colds, which for most of the time will not do anything to cure the cold, other than make the sufferer feel slightly more comfortable.
However, researchers have found that although there may not be a cure for the common cold, there [...]
Japanese try new products to stay young
The Japanese have always had some strange shopping habits, well they would appear to be strange to us, and to them they are perfectly normal. However, sometimes they get into something that promises to promote not only beauty, but health too.
There a growing number of what are being called Beauty Restaurants, this is where these [...]
McDonalds doing well
There has been a huge turnaround at McDonalds recently; they have changed the decor in their restaurants and the menu too. This has had a huge effect on the turnover of the company, which at one time were struggling in the face of other competitors.
Yet this has been a quiet revolution within the fast food [...]
Scientists working on a love spray
There are always many products around that claim to attract the ladies. However, like the ambitions of the ladies men that like to use these products normally fail to deliver the goods, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Nevertheless, to make things worse for the women out there, scientists are working on developing [...]
Cars to get microwaves
This just cannot be a good thing, a new product is about to hit the market and will no doubt change the way people choose to eat while on the move. This product is a 12 volt microwave; it plugs into the cigarette lighter and will mean that hot meals are a reality for drivers.
In [...]
Pepsi comes in all colours
The Japanese are so cool, they get all of the latest technology before us and they seem to always get different products too, like Pepsi. We have to do with the standard Pepsi, granted it may come in diet and other variations, but it is nothing like the Pepsi that is on sale in Japan.
Pepsi [...]
Secret sites for GM crops
Once again, the government have selected sites where the trials of genetically modified (GM) crops will be trialled, at the moment there are no trials going on within the UK, but this will change when the trials restart at secret locations and possibly a government military research facility at Salisbury in Wiltshire.
In the past when [...]