Good news for post-Christmas bingeing blues - a new study reveals
that moderate beer drinking could lower heart attack risk.
According to a group of Israeli researchers, a beer a day may help
keep heart attacks away.
As consumerism continues on its upward curve, new figures released
this week show that obesity and diabetes epidemics continued to
escalate in 2001. In just over ten years, obesity has increased by
more that 70 per cent in the US.
Consumer preferences and the demand for, and reliance upon, safe
food will drive research efforts by food scientists in the coming
years according to the Institute of Food Technologists.
Tesco, the UK's leading food retailer, has announced a New Year
price cutting campaign which will extend for the first time to
products such as convenience food and family favourites.
Australian yeast and ingredients group Burns Philp & Co. said
last weekthat it has started mailing out its bidder's statement to
shareholdersof Australasia's largest food group Goodman Fielder
about its A$2billion-plus...
After Fairtrade bananas, mangoes and chocolate, the UK's Co-op
retail chain has now introduced the world's first Fairtrade
pineapples, offering a fair deal and better working conditions for
growers in Costa Rica.
The UK Soil Association and the Fairtrade Foundation on Friday
launcheda new pilot project to combine organic and Fairtrade
certification whichwill apply to British and imported foods.
