How Red Wine’s Resveratrol Confers Health Benefits

Scientists have found out why resveratrol, a chemical naturally found in red wine, grapes, and some other fruit and vegetables, has health benefits, according to an article published in the journal Cell, February 3rd issue…

Women Copy Each Others’ Eating Patterns

When two women are eating together, one is more likely to put food in her mouth when the other one is doing so too – while one’s food-filled fork is coming towards her mouth, the other one is more likely to do the same within five seconds, researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, reported in PLoS One (The Public Library of Science 1)…

Carbendazim In Orange Juice – FDA Informs Juice Products Association

The following is an addendum to a FDA Letter to the Juice Products Association dated January 9, 2012.

Our Dining Partners Influence Our Eating Behavior

Share a meal with someone and you are both likely to mimic each other’s behavior and take bites at the same time rather than eating at your own pace, says a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.

Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer…

Brain Energy Metabolism Improved By Decaffeinated Coffee

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that decaffeinated coffee may improve brain energy metabolism associated with type 2 diabetes. This brain dysfunction is a known risk factor for dementia and other neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. The research is published online in Nutritional Neuroscience…