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the food and drug administration appears to be close to approving the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption: salmon with cross species genes and an \"always on\" hormone switch that enable them to grow twice as fast. a large number of critics voiced concerns about the safety of bio-engineered salmon for consumers as well as wild salmon and about the concern that approval will open the floodgates to a tide of other engineered animals.

for years we\'ve been told to avoid butter and instead use vegetable oils as our primary fat source. mainstream science claims this will save our hearts. but industrial oils like soybean, corn and canola oil are hiding a dirty little secret: consuming them could very well increase your risk of cancer.what are polyunsaturated fats?unlike saturated fats and monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats (also known as pufas for short) are linked by multiple double bonds.

as more people begin to realize the amazing health benefits that vitamin d has to offer, more people are naturally beginning to get more vitamin d, either through supplements or sunshine. the downside of this increased intake, however, is that more people are having adverse reactions from vitamin d. what most people are not aware of, though, is that most of these so-called \'vitamin d side effects\' are not problems with taking the vitamin itself, but are actually problems with not getting enough magnesium.

the refrigerators that supermarkets use to keep products fresh for extended periods of time pose a major threat to the global environment, the nonprofit environmental investigation agency (eia) has warned.when concern over the depletion of the ozone layer entered the mainstream in the 1990s, supermarkets widely phased out the use of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (hcfcs), replacing them with ozone-neutral hydrofluorocarbons (hfcs).

a recent study out of georgetown university medical center has concluded that what you eat can affect your children\'s and grandchildren\'s health, even if they eat healthy themselves. sonia de assis and her colleagues observed that rats fed fatty, unhealthy food pass on an increased cancer risk to their children and grandchildren.the study, which was presented at the american association for cancer research in washington, d.

a lack of vitamin d has already been linked in several studies to depression. now it appears a deficiency of this crucial nutrient could also play a role in robbing the brain of the ability to process information correctly and clearly. defined as a person\'s ability to process thoughts, cognitive function includes memory and the ability to learn new information, as well as speaking and reading comprehension.

manipulating our preconceptions on how filling we think food will be before we eat it may offer an interesting avenue in weight control, indicate new findings from the uk. according to results presented at the annual meeting of the society for the study of ingestive behavior (ssib), test subjects were more satisfied for longer periods of time after consuming food of varying quantities for which they were led to believe that portion sizes were larger than they actually were.

ciaa welcomes 5-year progress report on eu platform for action on diet, physical activity and health ciaa, the confederation of the food and drink industries of the eu, today welcomed the publication of the external evaluation report of the eu platform for action on diet, physical activity and health, which was commissioned by dg sanco, and carried out by the evaluation partnership.

fresh data on pesticide residues in food published by the european food safety authority (efsa) suggests that exposure levels are on the decrease. efsa said 96.5 per cent of the 70,000 fruit, vegetable and cereal samples it analysed in 2008 complied with maximum levels permitted by the eu. this means that 3.5 per cent exceeded the legal limits, compared to 4.2 per cent in the previous year.

rumours that the food standards agency could close have drawn concerns of long-term public health costs; while a lawyer says the government send its functions to two government departments without going through parliamentary procedures. a report from newswire reuters quotes an unidentified source as saying that the new conservative-liberal democrat coalition plans to close the food body, putting its public health function to the department of health (doh) and its food safety function to the department for food, rural affairs and the environment (defra).