Eggplants Offer Variety To Home Gardens

In the spirit of good taste and good looks, eggplant gets my vote for a place in the garden. Eggplant, or aubergine if you’re French, may not be as popular as the related tomato. Too bitter, some say. But eggplant’s more flavorful when harvested from the home garden, just like its cousin. And you grow [...]

Turn Veggie, Prevent Chronic Diseases

Well planned vegetarian diets are healthy and nutritious for all age groups and help prevent heart diseases, cancer, obesity and diabetes. Winston Craig, professor of nutrition and wellness at Andrews University , and Reed Mangels, nutrition advisor at the Vegetarian Resource Group , Baltimore, conducted the study on behalf of the American Dietetic Association (ADA). [...]

Watermelons flood Ramnad

Though there are symptoms for gruelling summer in southern districts this year, the lusciously succulent watermelons have hit the markets in large numbers here as one of the ways to keep cool in the summer. For customers, the sweet information for tasting the juicy flesh of sweet melon is that there is no change of [...]

Calcium May Help You Live Longer

Study: Men with higher intake 25 percent less likely to die over 10 years Getting a bit more calcium in your diet could help you live longer, new research suggests. Swedish researchers found that men who consumed the most calcium in food were 25 percent less likely to die over the next decade than their [...]

Will Turning Vegetarian Save The Planet?

The numbers look pretty unarguable. So much so that – as a senitive meat-eating, trying-hard green – I have to ask if Safran Foer is being too soft: can any meat-eater at all call themselves an environmentalist? Livestock agriculture produces more greenhouse gas emissions than every train, truck, car and aeroplane put together. The resources [...]

Forgetful? Eat Memory-Boosting Foods

Every cell in your body needs a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients in order to stay alive and work properly, including brain cells. Because oxygen and nutrients are carried in the blood stream, anything that impedes blood flow will starve those all-important brain cells. The plain truth is that a healthy heart makes for [...]

UWI notebook: Jamaican Raspberry Fruit With Health-Beneficial Properties

USING PLANTS TO TACKLE DISEASE Scientific studies clearly demonstrate the relationship between diet and health. Inflammatory diseases such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease are leading causes of death in Jamaica. With the high occurrence of these diseases locally, as well as worldwide, it becomes increasingly important to find alternative treatments which are more economical [...]

The GM Tomato That Stays Fresh For SIX WEEKS – But Would You Want To Eat It?

Tomatoes could stay fresh for an extra month thanks to a genetic breakthrough The curse of the soggy tomato could soon be a thing of the past … or so scientists say. They have created a fruit which is said to stay fresh for 45 days – three times longer than the conventional version. But [...]

Kids To Put Best Fruit Forward

A healthy living campaign has gone online in a bid to get students to eat more fruit. A survey by health chiefs in 2006 and 2008 found that only slightly more than half of primary pupils eat fruit twice daily. In an attempt to change the picture found by the EatSmart@school.hk campaign, the Department of [...]

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