Food/diet

Balanced diet cuts heart risk A diet combining fruit and vegetables with foods such as fish, poultry and nuts "can protect you against heart attack", reported The Independent.

Does broccoli aid gut problems? "Eating broccoli and plantain could reduce bouts of Crohn's disease," reported The Daily Telegraph. It said researchers have found that certain types of soluble fibre from these plants can help to prevent bacteria from sticking to the gut

'Grapefruit diabetes cure' unproven The Daily Mirror today hails grapefruit as a "fruity 'cure' for diabetes". The newspaper suggests that the chemical naringenin found in the fruit "can do the same job as two drugs used to treat type-2 diabetes".

Fatty food and long-term weight gain "A moment on the lips really does mean a lifetime on the hips," says the Daily Mail. The newspaper suggests that even short periods of overeating "could cause the waistline to bulge years later".

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