Nutrition

Healthy gourmet: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

14 May 2013

I am a chef and I am in love with food: it has the power to make us healthy and happy. But it also has potential to make us fat.

12:06PM

Focus on pregnancy weight gain a bit heavy handed

14 May 2013

It was a depressing morning. At an antenatal check-up I was told, not once, but twice, that I was fat.

12:00PM

Fast food nutrition levels in US 'unchanged in 14 years'

9 May 2013

Fast food restaurants in the US have failed to raise the nutritional value of their dishes in 14 years, despite pledges to offer healthy choices, researchers say. The global obesity crisis and...

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Fish oil and pregnancy

6 May 2013

An estimated 5 per cent of babies born in Hong Kong are underweight, according to Health Department statistics from 2011, and thus face a greater risk of disease, significant disabilities or even...

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Benefits of vitamin D should be crystal clear

5 May 2013

Hexagonal structures are not rare in nature. For instance, the crystals in our bones and teeth, the apatites, are hexagonal. These apatite crystals contain calcium. The main fraction of calcium of...

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Lab report

30 Apr 2013

Potassium is often overlooked in diets even though its intake is linked with lower blood pressure in adults.

10:16AM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Better nutrition to combat stunting

Stunting, a little-reported, recognised or understood human tragedy, blights the lives of some 165 million children worldwide.

5:02AM

Lab report

Children of parents with low and medium education levels eat fewer vegetables and fruit, and more processed products and sweet drinks, according to a study.

10:07AM

Letters to the Editor, March 14, 2013

I would not be in favour of land on which underused sports facilities, yacht clubs and camp sites are located being turned into sites for new flats.

2:59AM

BOOK REVIEW

Book review: The End of Diabetes

In a city where food can be found in nearly every street and at every corner, it's obvious that many Hongkongers live to eat. Dr Joel Fuhrman wants you to do the opposite: eat to live.

9:21AM

BOOK REVIEW

Book review: Eat to lose, eat to win

How many calories does a Portobello vegan tempeh burger with mayo and pesto sauce, and a side of kale salad dressed in peanut sauce, have?

4:31PM

NUTRITION RASPBERRY KETONES

Nutrition: Raspberry ketones

Could raspberry ketones be magic? Popular television doctor Mehmet Oz certainly thinks so: he proclaimed last year on The Dr Oz Show that the raspberry compound was "the miracle fat burner in a...

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