Archives for January 27, 2003

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Look at the evidence - diet can prevent CHD

A symposium of top UK cardiologists and international heart experts last week confirmed the key role of diet in reducing the burden of coronary heart disease (CHD). They said that the health care profession needed to push diet up the agenda, and...

Vitamin D more useful than calcium for older women

Vitamin D rather than calcium intake is important in protecting post-menopausal women from fractures associated with osteoporosis, US researchers confirm in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Homocysteine, the clue to heart disease

Researchers at Wageningen University say that people with a genetically determined, reduced breakdown of the amino acid homocysteine have an increased risk of coronary heart disease but that the reduced homocysteine breakdown only raised the risk of...

Britvic launches fizzy drink alternative

Britvic Soft Drinks, the UK's second largest soft drink producer after Cadbury Schweppes, is to launch a new brand next month offering drinkers a product which it claims is unique to the British market.