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Health & Nutrition

Separating fact from fiction in the health and nutrition arena is not a job for the fainthearted. But uncovering the truth has a lot of upsides.

Did you know that research has shown a link between drinking red wine and reducing osteoporosis? Or that following a Mediterranean diet might be good for mental as well as physical health?

Gluten Free Foods: Magic or Myth?

·5 mins
The gluten-free phenomena is not just a frustrating conundrum for health and medical professionals, it may be downright unhealthy.

Nobel Secrets

·2 mins
Last year, Franz Messerli, the Swiss-born director of hypertension program at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University in New York, published a slightly tongue-in-cheek paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, linking chocolate consumption with winning Nobel prizes

A very smart investment

·4 mins
Providing nutrients to children has been named as the most cost effective method of improving lives around the world. Words by Lynn...

One hump or two?

·3 mins
Camel milk has played an important role in the diet of nomadic and pastoral cultures for centuries.

Tracking disease with supramap

·3 mins
A new web-based program is providing an innovative tool to track the spread of infectious diseases across time, geography and humans.