Archive for Nanofood
Obtain drinking water using nanotechnology
A tea bag and nanotechnology can help make the quality of life for millions of people get a bit better, at least in the aspect that has to do with the most precious liquid by man: the water or, better yet, drinking water. Actually it is not just a tea bag, but a water filter [...]
When food and medicine are not friends
Inertia, accustomed to accompany the intake of drugs with food or drink, or take medication after meals. But not in all cases is the best way to medicate. For example, if you are on blood thinning medication (such as Sintrom), Foods rich in vitamin K such as spinach, beans, cauliflower or broccoli, would significantly reduce [...]
Nanotechnology for clean water: A new technology, new rules?
According to Malini Balakrishnan and Nidhi Srivastava, nanotechnology is an emerging technology for purifying water, should be regulated at this stage with the existing laws. Worldwide, declining water supplies and water quality, which continues to deteriorate, are the basis for innovations in the technology field water treatment. Nanotechnology is a key technology in that it [...]
Regional Conference against GMOs
The regions are asking the government to ban the cultivation of GM potato Amflora and of GE maize MON810, the only abstains Lombardia. On October 7, at the Conference of the Regions has discussed the use of GM crops on the Italian territories. Stefano Dario, coordinator of the Agriculture Committee of the Conference of Regional [...]
Mediterranean diet lowers risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
In the medical community has long been a connection between eating habits and the occurrence of certain chronic diseases and controversial and regularly conducted more and more studies confirm that diet influences your health, certain. Deploys as well as the current analysis of the EPIC study, a relationship between Mediterranean diet and a lower risk [...]
Eat or not transgenic salmon?
The FDA maintains doubts about the safety of using the transgenic salmon as food for humans and the approval of AquAdvantage Salmon (AAS) developed by Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc. will have to wait for it to resolve some of the issues have not yet been clarified with the data presented by the company. Apparently there [...]
