Food and Nutrition

A preservative E211, known as sodium benzoate, which is in most soft drinks, pickles and sauces, has been implicated in some serious health...

There is a new diet hitting town, not Atkins or Zone, but a diet based on raw living foods. This diet offers impressive weight loss, increased energy, less need for sleep and boosts the immune system until ‘it’s impossible to get sick’....

Behind the Bean is a report on organic soybeans by the US-based Cornucopia Institute which challenges the organic claims of many suppliers of tofu and soy milk. While US specific, it also has relevance to Australia as some of our soya products are...

Researchers have shown that children who switch their diet for just a few days to organic food from non organic food lowered the levels of pesticides in their bodies dramatically and...

A new study recently (circa Sept 20120) published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, researchers from The Committee for Research & Independent Information on Genetic Engineering...

The most important thing to understand is that there is no reliable cure for cancer. Despite decades of research, in 2003 the same percentage of people died from colon, breast, lung and prostate cancer as died in 1957. However, despite this sad...

The following is an executive summary of a report by the US-based Cornucopia Institute on the presence in infant formula of hexane, a known nuerotoxin. While this is US-based, it still has relevance to Australian mums and...

In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Michael Pollan states that as a rule of thumb, if a food is advertised then it is not really food, that industrial food production is much more about ‘industrial’ than the ‘food’. He goes...

Published in an article on the ABC website 5/3/2014, Low carb diet may make you unhealthy, shorten your life: study, a study of various diets and their affect on longevity show that low fat, high protein diets are not as healthy as we...

In a study titled Happy genes set you up for life, published in the European Heart Journal scientists discovered that happy people have healthier hearts and are less likely to have heart...