Food Facts

Adopting A Healthy Attitude Towards Food For those who are or have ever suffered from an eating disorder, attitudes towards food can be very...

Recommended daily allowances (RDAs) are guidelines used to set the standard for daily nutritional amounts required by a healthy person. However, the...

When dieting it is important to understand the foods you are eating. To help you we have published data for around 8,000 foods and food types...

Food additives play an important role in the preservation of our food, one that we usually take for granted. UK food additive regulations...

Salads are a great way to lose weight, but you might want to work on some ideas to jazz them up before you lose interest in them. Of course, the...

About 46% of men in England and 32% of women are overweight and an additional 17% of men and 21% of women are obese. Most of your body fat is stored...

If you are feeling tired and drained of energy, your gums and inside your lower eyelids look pale and whitish, chances are that you are suffering...

In the past nuts have been avoided because of their high fat content, but the new message from nutritionists is to shift focus from the total amount...

Though you may not be aware, the intestinal tract is inhabited by thriving colonies of over 400 types of microorganisms. While some of them are...

Salt is present in all our body fluids though there is more in the blood and fluid outside the cells than inside. The function of salt is to maintain...

Conservative estimates reveal that between 10 and 25% of the world population suffer from hypoglycaemia, or low blood sugar. The blood sugar level...

Our bodies are made up of around 75 percent water. It is the essential medium for various enzymatic & chemical reactions like moving nutrients,...