The prospect of healthy low fat food that tastes as good as a high calorie equivalent has come a step closer thanks to research at Birmingham University into replacing fat in food products.
Researchers at the Centre for Formulation Engineering are developing a microstructure that would have the same physical properties of a fat globule in food but [...]
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If you love a curry you’ll probably also have to watch your waistline. This favourite of dishes can be a real belt tightener.
But a project between Warwick University and Birmingham’s Lasan Indian restaurant could ease that squeeze by producing healthier Indian cuisine.
The results could not only help the Asian population, particularly at risk to some [...]
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Worried about being or becoming overweight but dazzled by the all the diets and losing weight fads around?
Ideasforlife.tv is here to help in our series Battling Obesity, looking at the UK’s growing weight crisis.
Here Warwick Medical School dietician Eve Nortley gives some top tips on what to put in your shopping basket and what to leave [...]
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