by Christine Morgan | Jun 18, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
No, I’m not talking about alcohol. There’s a new dilemma in town – namely, tea or coffee? Okay, so not a new dilemma really. For riskfactorphobes, the predicament has been around since clinical studies began. Researchers are, as you may already know,...
by Christine Morgan | Jun 17, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
Since I’m on the subject of diabetes (see my previous two posts), I thought I’d mention a story in today’s news that’s worth pointing out if only for it’s utterly unremarkable message. Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and...
by Christine Morgan | Jun 16, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
If white rice increases your risk for developing type 2 diabetes (see yesterday’s post, Rice not nice? Well, at least when it’s white…), then the other food you want to steer clear of, at least if you want to avoid getting pancreatic cancer, is...
by Christine Morgan | Jun 15, 2010 | Food and drink, General health
So the latest food to get the pubic-enemy-number-one treatment is rice. Or rather, specifically white rice. You’ve probably seen the headlines already. Yes, white rice increases your risk for type 2 diabetes, but brown rice decreases it. So all those experts who...
by Christine Morgan | Jun 14, 2010 | General health, Pregnancy & birth
It’s been a rough old time for hospitals lately. Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about a US study that suggests you have a bigger chance of dying from a fatal medication error (that’s being given the wrong drugs, or the wrong dose, or perhaps at the...
