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| CALORIC SWEETENER USE GROWS WORLDWIDE; SOFT DRINKS ARE CHIEF CULPRIT, STUDY SHOWS. |
| Use of caloric sweeteners, including sugar, has grown markedly around the world over the past 40 years, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. |
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| GOOD SUMMER NEWS - LESS FATTENING WATERMELON |
| A less fattening but no-less sweet variety of watermelon has been developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem agricultural scientist. |
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| GREEN TEA’S CANCER-FIGHTING ALLURE BECOMES MORE POTENT |
| Green tea's ability to fight cancer is even more potent and varied than scientists suspected, say researchers who have discovered that chemicals in green tea shut down one of the key molecules that tobacco relies upon to cause cancer. It's a find that could help explain why people who drink green tea are less likely to develop cancer. |
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| HONEY FIGHTS CHOLESTEROL AS WELL AS SOME FRUITS AND VEGETABLES |
| Don't like spinach? Try honey. It contains about the same level of plaque-fighting antioxidants as the leafy green stuff. And according to research presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, the range of antioxidants in honey is comparable to that in apples, bananas, oranges and strawberries. |
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| ITALIAN CHEFS KNEW IT ALL ALONG: COOKING PLUMP RED TOMATOES BOOSTS DISEASE-FIGHTING, NUTRITIONAL POWER, CORNELL RESEARCHERS SAY |
| Cooking tomatoes -- such as in spaghetti sauce -- makes the fruit heart-healthier and boosts its cancer-fighting ability. All this, despite a loss of vitamin C during the cooking process, say Cornell food scientists. The reason: cooking substantially raises the levels of beneficial compounds called phytochemicals. |
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| LIGHT MARGARINE IS A GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTTER |
| Light margarine available on the market could be considered as a butter substitute. On the contrary to ordinary butter, light margarine do not contain either sufficient fats or harmful substances. |
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| TEQUILA WILL BECOME A MOST POPULAR KIND OF VODKA |
| Producers of a Mexican vodka, tequila, named after the town in East Mexico, promise to produce the world’s best vodka. New strategy of «blood-boiling drink» producers focuses on qualitative, not quantitative, performance of the product to be exported in future... |
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