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Individuals who are susceptible to genetic damage and who do not eat enough dietary folate are almost three times as likely to develop bladder cancer as those who eat plenty of fruit and vegetables and who have efficient capacity to repair DNA damage,...
The Irish food board held a seminar last month to identify opportunities for food companies seeking a bigger role in the €40 billion functional foods market.
French homeopathy specialist Dolisos is launching a milk protein-based supplement, designed to treat stress, into the UK market this month.
A derivative of the green tea leaf may help reduce risk factors for heart disease, including bad cholesterol and high blood pressure, researchers will report at an Experimental Biology meeting next week.
The Natural Products Expo Asia event, scheduled for June at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, has been rescheduled for December as a result of the SARS outbreak.
German pharmaceutical and ingredients group Boehringer Ingelheim reported a healthy rise in profits for 2002 this week, with directors describing its current status as "extremely sound and robust".
New findings suggest that a diet moderately high in grape seed extract can blunt salt-sensitive hypertension to the same extent as previous, potentially carcinogenic, treatments. A discovery which may be significant for the increasing number of women...