Police in Dumfries and Galloway have said a spate of drink driving offences has “ruined” its road safety figures.
The number of road crashes and casualties in the region has fallen for the first six months of this year compared with the same period in 2007.
However, a spokesman said that recent weeks had seen a surge [...]
BINGE drinking” is a useful term that indicates an excessive, unhealthy and dangerous level of drinking. “Binge” drinkers aim to get drunk, often as quickly as possible. It is disappointing to see the term misused in the current debate over the new National Health and Medical Research Council Guidelines (Sunday Age, 15/6).
These guidelines are not [...]
But when the next administration is confronted with tough decision-making on the crucial issue of how to feed the planet’s 6.5 billion people, it will come as no surprise to anyone who has picked up this summer’s nonfiction must-read, “The End of Food.”
Call him a professional Cassandra if you will, but this time out the [...]
Can you name 40 foods that are good for your heart? It’s pretty safe to list fruits and veggies such as sweet potatoes, bell peppers, cherries, grapes and leafy greens. But some of the items on that list are less obvious: seeds, nuts, sea vegetables, garlic, the onion family and dark chocolate. WomenHeart’s All Heart [...]
Artificial dyes must be banned from use in food because they are linked to serious behavioural and attention-deficit problems in children, according to a U.S.-based consumer advocacy group that has launched a campaign to eliminate several food additives.
Synthetic food dyes are used to enhance the colour of products and are ubiquitous in many packaged and [...]
Drinking and eating during labor can provide women with the energy they need and should not be routinely restricted, says a new clinical bulletin from the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
“It’s important that we don’t unnecessarily restrict a woman’s ability to eat or drink during labor. In addition to providing hydration, nutrition and comfort, self-regulating intake [...]
In a pristine kitchen-cum-laboratory, deep inside Marks and Spencer’s gleaming new Paddington headquarters, Simon Allison, a senior food technologist, is sampling part of a recently launched range of organic food – a chicken and vegetable terrine.
He explains what he is looking for: “Crushed carrots in the topping, a red, livery, paté-style flavour underneath.” For texture, [...]
One of my friends was mourning the loss of 99 Fast Food, the Vietnamese place that once drew crowds across Niagara Street from City Hall. She dried her eyes when I told her that 99 Fast Food yet lived, on Bailey Avenue a block south of the University at Buffalo South Campus. The new federal [...]
At the school, all is good, and green. Their hands caked in dirt, giggling students plant seedlings in their new garden.
But outside Sheppard Elementary School in Roseland, temptation awaits: a dozen vendors line the sidewalks, ringing bells to signal a bounty of soda, candy, ice cream, and the increasingly popular snack, Cheetos “Flaming Hot with [...]
MANILA, Philippines - The food crisis has brought home the folly of neglecting agriculture. The government has responded by convening last April 4 a Food Summit at which President Macapagal-Arroyo unveiled a P43.7-billion ambitious emergency package-dubbed “FIELDS”-to increase the production of rice and other food crops. All the talk at the Summit was about the [...]
