They've found that sated feeling
Dutch scientists are developing anti-obesity foods that make people feel full faster, prevent obese people developing diabetes and lower high blood pressure. Top Institute Food and Nutrition director Robert-Jan Brummer says he expects major breakthroughs within a few years. 'We're working on certain food ingredients, which provoke more satiety than others,' he told Reuters. The institute, funded by the government and major food makers such as Unilever, has previously invented technology that lowers the total fat content of foods without compromising taste.
Chinese smokers unfazed by risks
More Asians are taking up smoking, but few are quitting, according to an international study targeting China, home to most of the 160 million smokers expected to die before 2050. Research by the Australia-based George Institute for International Health found that three-quarters of China's smokers say they have no intention of quitting, 70 per cent say the health dangers are 'negligible' and only 4 per cent say that smoking is related to heart disease, Reuters reports.
Swedes count the cost of cigarettes
Smokers take an average of eight days more sick leave a year than non-smokers, a Swedish study of more than 14,000 workers between 1988 and 1991 has found. Smokers took 34 days sick leave a year on average, former smokers took 25 days and those who had never smoked took 20, AFP reports.
Working off need for puff