UK: Dubai Dining Phenomenon Just Falafel Opens its first store outside the Middle East – London, Covent Garden
7/1/13 www.zawya.com
Five additional UK locations secured as Just Falafel honoured with three UAE awards
Just Falafel, the Middle East’s fastest-growing dining phenomenon, opens its first store outside of the Middle East in Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, London, just after securing a brace of business awards in its home market, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Inside the meat lab: the future of food
5/1/13 www.guardian.co.uk
With billions of mouths to feed, we can’t go on producing food in the traditional way. Scientists are coming up with novel ways to cater for future generations. In-vitro burger, anyone?
UK: Diane Abbott outlines plan to curb fast food shops
4/1/13 www.guardian.co.uk
Shadow health minister wants to give local authorities powers to curb spread of ‘chicken and chip’ shops near schools
Diane Abbott, the shadow public health minister, is concerned about the spread of fast food outlets near schools, and sales of cheap alcohol. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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World diabetes day: Why the UK’s Asian communities need to take action
14/11/12 blogs.independent.co.uk
By Dr Kiran Patel
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Today is World Diabetes Day and in my clinic I’ll see several patients whose hearts have been damaged by diabetes. I’ll treat them and encourage them to make lifestyle changes. And I hope they have the support of their families because it isn’t easy being a patient with diabetes who has heart problems. Over the coming years I fully expect to see many more patients with heart disease directly caused by diabetes because we are in the grips of a diabetes epidemic.
UAE: Top nutritionist reveals bite-sized food guidelines for World Diabetes Day
14/11/12 www.7daysindubai.com
To nibble on a naughty slice of chocolate cake or indulge in that delicious donut? It’s a dietary dilemma that probably comes with an extra helping of guilt for snack fans.
Can a few cherries a day keep gout away? – Study
13/10/12 uk.reuters.com
(Reuters Health) – Cherries may no longer be for just topping off ice cream sundaes; in a new study of people with gout, eating the fruit was linked with a 35 percent to 75 percent lower risk of having an attack.
Secrets and Blessings of Sunnah Foods
Saudi Arabia set to enforce public shisha ban
11/10/12 www.hoteliermiddleeast.com
Smokers of the hubble-bubble water pipe have until Saturday to indulge their fondness for sweet flavoured tobacco in Jeddah’s cafes as the Saudi city prepares to enforce a public ban on the habit.
A law against smoking the pipes, known in Arabic as shisha, in public places has been in place for years in some other Saudi cities, but it is only now being implemented in Jeddah, which is known as more socially liberal than the capital Riyadh.
Eat your way to a longer life
11/10/12 gulfnews.com
By Mahmood Saberi, Senior Reporter
Meet the colourful foods that can slow down the ageing process
Canada: Recalled beef concerns raised at local health unit
10/10/12 www.cbc.ca
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit says no local cases of E. Coli linked to XL Foods recall reported
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit receives approximately a dozen calls a week inquiring about tainted beef and E. Coli. Fears of contaminated beef processed in Alberta’s XL Food plant have spread to more than 20 countries where the beef was shipped.
UK: Health warning over glittery cake decorations
8/10/12 www.telegraph.co.uk
Sweet-toothed shoppers who buy decorated cup cakes could be unwittingly eating plastic or powdered brass, trading standards chiefs have warned.
UAE: Living large in the oil-rich Gulf
5/10/12 www2.macleans.ca
Several middle eastern nations have an obesity problem worse than the U.S.’s
Common solvents tied to birth defects – Research
4/10/12 uk.reuters.com
(Reuters Health) – Pregnant women with frequent exposure to solvents at work may be at higher risk of having babies with birth defects, French researchers have found.
Can it! Soda studies cite stronger link to obesity
24/9/12 uk.reuters.com
By Sharon Begley
(Reuters) – As Americans debate what is most to blame for the nation’s obesity epidemic, researchers say they have the strongest evidence yet that sugary drinks play a leading role and that eliminating them would, more than any other single step, make a huge difference.
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