Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: processed food http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Voluntary reduction has failed as processed and fast food salt levels remain high as ever The dangerously high salt levels in processed food and fast food remain essentially unchanged, despite numerous calls from public and private health agencies for the food industry to voluntarily reduce sodium levels, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study conducted with the Center for Science in the Public Interest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-voluntary-reduction-fast-food-salt.html Health Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:08 EST news287658436 UK food agency raids abattoir in horsemeat scandal (AP)—Britain's police and food safety regulator on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing firm suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-uk-food-agency-raids-abattoir.html Health Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:24:37 EST news279905062 Grape polyphenols counteract fructose-induced effects (HealthDay)—Grape polyphenol (PP) supplementation prevents fructose-induced oxidative stress and insulin resistance in healthy volunteers with high metabolic risk, according to research published online Dec. 28 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-grape-polyphenols-counteract-fructose-induced-effects.html Diabetes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:10:01 EST news279175097 Development of measures to prevent wine indispositions Biogenic amines may be one of the factors responsible for symptoms such as headaches, gastro-intestinal disorders, shortness of breath, fall in blood pressure, and even unconsciousness and cardiac arrhythmia in severe cases. Histamine, one of the best known members of this group, can cause serious physical problems. Biogenic amines can be produced in the body by natural metabolic activities but are also ingested in larger quantities with food. They play a special role in microbiologically produced food such as wine, beer, cheese, and sauerkraut. In a joint project Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Dienstleistungszentrum Ländlicher Raum Rheinpfalz (DLR) have developed measures to identify and reduce biogenic amines in wine, where they can be of particular risk to human well-being. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-wine-indispositions.html Health Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:05:25 EST news271508713 Study finds most children eat four times the daily salt limit (Medical Xpress)— Deakin University study has found seven in ten children are eating more than the recommended upper limit of salt each day, putting their health at serious risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-children-daily-salt-limit.html Health Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:19:05 EST news268903115 Low and middle income countries are the recent targets of processed food manufacturers "There is significant penetration by multinational processed food manufacturers such as Nestle, Kraft, PepsiCo, and Danone into food environments in low-and-middle income countries, where consumption of unhealthy commodities is reaching—and in some cases exceeding—a level presently observed in high income countries", according to international researchers writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-middle-income-countries-food.html Health Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:00:01 EST news259944963 Could beetroot be the key to a healthy burger? Nutritional experts at the University of Aberdeen have devised their own turkey burger, which includes extracts of the vegetable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-beetroot-key-healthy-burger.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:19:39 EST news254045969