Archives for January 2, 2003

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Cereal Partners launches bars in UK

Nestle subsidiary Cereal Partners UK has entered the rapidly growing cereal bar market, with the launch of three new bars. The 'Cereal and Milk Bars', already available in France, Portugal and Spain, are made from the Nestle cereals Cheerios, Golden...

Fruit beverages replace healthier fruit juices

Parents should beware the many new fruit-based drinks on the market as children are drinking less of the healthier pure fruit juice, suggests new research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

Bring on the beer!

A beer a day may help keep heart attacks away, according to a group of Israeli researchers. In preliminary clinical studies of a group of men with coronary artery disease, the researchers showed that drinking one beer every day for a month produced...

Supplements encourage 'self-treatment'

A survey of supplement use among more than 45,000 American men and women shows that many people are self-treating medical conditions with natural remedies. The authors urged doctors to be aware of the the conditions their patients may be treating.

No need for fish oil supplements?

Farm-raised fish eating specially formulated diets high in fatty acids could improve people's health and also satisfy different palates, according to US researchers who are testing additives of conjugated linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid believed...