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Supplements of the hormone DHEA could help prevent age-related heart disease, suggests a small Japanese study. Middle-aged men with high cholesterol levels had improved artery function as well as insulin sensitivity after a daily dose of DHEA.
The proposed European regulation on nutrition and health claims will severely restrict the marketing potential of supplement makers, says the European Health Product Manufacturers Association (EHPM), calling on the European Parliament to make changes...
The Australian government is allocating A$5.5 million (€3.17m) in funding for the commercial development of functional foods at one of two new centres for food excellence.
Dutch nutrition company Royal Numico has completed the sale of its US vitamin maker Rexall Sundown, leaving it with no shareholders' equity, said the firm on Friday.
Natural chemicals released in the body as a result of chronic inflammation may underpin the failure of low-fat, so-called heart healthy diets to actually reduce cholesterol and heart disease risk in some people, suggest results of a Johns Hopkins study.