ound Genetically modified foods or GM foods for short, also go under many different names, including transgenic food, genetically engineered food or biotech food.So what are GM foods? Although different people and groups have different definitions, GM foods can broadly define as foods that “are produced from crops whose genetic makeup has been altered... »
Junk food–every one knowingly or unknowingly consuming junk food as diet often.By the way, what is Junk food ?Junk food is an informal term applied to some foods with little or no nutritional value, or to products with nutritional value but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten, or to those considered... »
Food crisis in Pakistan The inflation turned out to be 23.34 per cent during the month of December 2008 whereas it was 8.79 per cent in the month of December 2007 last year. The main contributor to this inflation has been the food inflation which stood at 27.92 per cent. Besides, the 32 per... »
The Food Guide Pyramid is one manner for everyone to read how to eat healthy. A rainbow of colored, vertical stripes stands for the five food groups plus fats and oils. Here is what the colors stand for: orange = grains green = vegetables red = fruits yellow = fats and oils blue =... »
Nutritional therapy for Fibromyalgia can help reduce stress, free the body of toxins, and restore nutrients which have been stripped away. Supplements can be helpful, but right now, I want to focus on diet.FM patients need to watch what we eat because there are many foods that exacerbate our symptoms. I know how hard... »
Food poisoning is a general term for health problems arising from eating contaminated food. There are different ways for food getting contaminated and they are by bacteria, viruses, environmental toxins or pesticides etc.. The symptoms like vomiting, diarrhea and nausea are generally attributed to the food poisoning.The presence of poisonous substances like bacteria, fungus... »
The raw food diet is a diet based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, sprouts, seeds, nuts, grains, beans, dried fruit, and seaweed. The eating of meat or fish raw is not something that the majority of raw foodies advocate.It is a scientific fact that heating food above... »
Many people suffer from tragic food allergies and some don’t even have an idea that it exists in them. The allergy is a result of the body’s reaction on introducing the kind of foods which cannot or are difficult to get digested by the system. As soon as this food get digested and penetrates... »
Although it seems an obvious requirement that those handling the nation’s food should have received food hygiene training it has only been a UK legal requirement since 1995. That is not to say that the importance of such training had not been officially recognised before, in fact following the Aberdeen Typhoid outbreak of 1964... »
The term ” food safety” has increasingly been used as a replacement for the phrase ” food hygiene” and encompasses a whole range of issues that must be addressed if prepared food is to be safe to eat.Food safety therefore includes such matters as the temperature control of food through storage, preparation and service,... »
