Archives for June 30, 2002

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Breast is best when it comes to brain development

Breastfeeding is still the best way to ensure that babies obtain the necessary nutritional intake for developing a healthy brain. This was the conclusion of a panel of experts meeting last week at the Advances in Paediatric Nutrition Symposium in the US.

Food fortified with vitamin D - the future?

Health professionals across Europe are seeing more and more cases of rickets and increasing the amount of vitamin D in food could be one way to tackle this. A new European-funded research project in Denmark entitled OPTIFORD is set to investigate new...

Food allergen labelling - the debate deepens

Fuel to further fire the debate, on both sides of the Atlantic, surrounding the labelling of potential food allergens arrived this week with the outcome of a new study in the US. According to new research, 93 per cent of parents of children with a...