Neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) have shown that spending a sleepless night makes us crave donuts, pizza and other dishes classified as "junk food". The finding provides a new explanation for the relationship between sleep and obesity.
Women who consume large amounts of cold cuts, bacon or smoked meats are more likely to develop ovarian cancer, something that scientists attribute to the fact that these processed meats contain nitrosamines and nitrosamides.
The European HELENA study on nutrition in adolescents, led by the University of Granada, Spain, has shown that eating up to seven eggs per week in adolescents does not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
According to the 'White Book on Ice Creams', edited by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (SEMFYC), ice creams that have milk as their base ingredient (cream ice cream, milk ice cream and ice cream) present a significant nutritional value due to its high protein content (from milk) and its richness in essential amino acids.
Monosodium glutamate, also called E-621, is a natural product that is normally ingested in small amounts in dietary protein or as an additive. Since it is completely innocuous, its use as a flavor enhancer in packaged foods such as French fries, sausages and all kinds of snacks is more and more frequent. So much so that it is estimated that the 200,000 tons of glutamate produced in the world in 1970 rose to 1,500,000 tons in 2005.
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