Archives for August 7, 2005

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Weekly Comment

Turning food into trash

Water, we save. Energy, we conserve. But food, it seems, we can waste, junk and bin and no-one cares. Except one crusader, whose 20-year project has proven what should have been obvious in the first place: our attitude to food is costing us a fortune.

Coke bottler explores functional milk deal

By  Chris Mercer

Coca-Cola, hit by a slow-down in fizzy drinks sales, may be looking to expand into vitamin-enriched milk after the firm's bottling arm announces talks to buy control of Bravo! Foods.

DHEA no help for fibromyalgia

By  Jess Halliday

Researchers at Brigham & Women's Hospital found that DHEA delivered no benefits for fibromyalgia sufferers - a finding that does not help the industry's fight to preserve the hormone precursor's status as a dietary supplement.

Red clover investigated for effect on menopause, PMS symptoms

By  Dominique Patton

UK doctors, struggling to give advice to women on alternatives to hormone replacement therapy (HRT), are launching a study to find out how effective red clover is at preventing the hot flushes experienced during menopause.

A new Frontier in CoQ10 supply

By  Jess Halliday

Frontier Scientific claims to have become the first supplier of CoQ10 outside of Japan with multi-ton capacity, through a deal signed last week with Taiwan's PharmaEssentia. The agreement could solve the problems of supplement and cosmetics makers who...