Individuals whose diet includes more salad dressing, nuts, fish, poultry and certain fruits and vegetables and fewer high-fat dairy products, red meats, organ meats and butter appear less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a report posted online that will appear in the June print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives [...]

A survey of UK supermarkets’ own-brand gluten-free, wheat-free and dairy-free foods has found more than half had higher salt levels than standard versions, raising concern for the intake levels of celiacs and others who avoid certain foods.
There is a major drive to decrease levels of salt in packaged and processed foods, as part of efforts [...]

High consumption of fructose in the diet may lead to spatial memory problems, according to a new study with rats from Georgia State University.
Rodents fed a diet where fructose represented 60 per cent of calories ingested during the day were found to perform poorly in tests of memory, compared to rodents fed a control diet, [...]