Consumer magazine Which? tested out UK breakfast cereals and found that some of them were hard to distinguish from sweets.

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Ten litres of Coke – or Pepsi – is a lot. Truth is, some people are drinking this every day.
It’s no wonder that it causes problems. These are mainly caused by  hypokalaemia – insufficient potassium in the blood. The deficiency is caused by an excess of caffeine plus sugar.
It is incredible to think [...]

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A study in Germany has found that organically grown apples have 15% higher anti-oxidant properties than non-organic.
The study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, compared the content of polyphenols and anti-oxidants in Golden Delicious apples over a three year period.
We do not recommend eating too many apples as, especially these days, the [...]

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To deal with Swine Flu it is best to make sure the immune system is working strongly.
The fundamental approach to strengthening the immune system must be to keep improving your lifestyle – bit by bit, and over time. For example:

Improve your diet, eg

Eat more vegetables
Eat more berries (and less high-sugar fruit)
Cut down on [...]

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Most people do not consume chocolate because of the fantastic benefit of cocoa polyphenols for the arteries – to help avoid atherosclerosis. They just love chocolate. This favoured sweet might be at risk because of under supply of cocoa.
Growing Pains
Mars and Cadbury’s have realised that they have a cocoa problem on their hands. Supply [...]

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