Health

A new investigation by the Guardian and the Food & Water Watch reveals the monopoly big food corporations have on our grocery baskets.
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People in England should cut their meat consumption by 30%, the new food strategy says. The advice is part of the second instalment of the government-commissioned National Food Strategy. Led by Henry Dimbleby, the founder of British…
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Kool For Men, a new Hong Kong lifestyle startup, wants to empower men with sustainable and ethical CBD, grooming and wellness products.
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In trying to improve workplace wellbeing, companies often miss the mark. Stephen Bevan lists out some things they should keep in mind.
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Nearly half of China's consumers want to shop healthier but price and information access are proving to be barriers.
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A senior lobbyist at ExxonMobil has been filmed by undercover reporters talking about its secret campaign against laws on forever chemicals.
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Dr. Jane Goodall and over 60 other scientists have penned a letter urging the E.U. to stop funding animal food advertisements.
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Alice Waters makes an impassioned call for eating the slow food way in her new book, 'We Are What We Eat'.
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Toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS have been detected in half of all U.S. cosmetics samples in a new Notre Dame University study.
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Core One Labs is patenting its proprietary biosynthesis production method for psilocybin—magic mushrooms—for medicinal purposes.
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Researchers say that more needs to be done to stop unhealthy junk food choices for kids to alleviate obesity rates and create healthy habits.
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Everything Food follows a "food as medicine" approach with its healthy meal delivery prescription platform.
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Researchers have found that people who are vegetarian have a healthier biomarker profile compared to meat-eating folk. The British study’s findings, presented at the recent virtual European Congress on Obesity (ECO), is consistent despite…
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NGOs and plant-based companies are now pushing for processed meat, a classified carcinogen under World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, to be included in California’s Proposition 65 list of substances known to cause cancer or…
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A new study of frontline healthcare workers across six countries shows an association between plant-based diets and reduced risk of developing moderate or severe Covid-19. The study also found lower odds with pescatarian diets, though to a…
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Israeli precision nutrition startup DayTwo has raised US$37 million to continue developing its gut microbiome sequencing AI technology that makes dietary recommendations for people with diabetes and other metabolic illnesses. DayTwo says…
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Health professionals and experts have urged for a global phase-out of PFAS, as more evidence over the harmful effects of these “forever chemicals” comes to light. The call, made by a global coalition of women’s health organisations under…
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According internal document, Swiss food giant Nestlé has acknowledged that over 60% of its F&B products do not "meet a recognized definition of health" with the company further stating that “some of our categories and…
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Mammalian milk food tech startup Biomilq has announced that it has moved from the proof-of-concept stage into proof-of-complexity, producing what it says is the “world’s first cell-cultured human milk outside of the breast”. This puts the…
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A new research collaboration has formed between Chinese agri-food tech firm Pinduoduo and the Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), part of the government’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).…
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Plastic items are now officially considered toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), a move that environmental campaigners have described as a “bold message” to the plastic industry. The decision to list plastics as…
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