Health food caution
'Functional Foods' - also known as 'nutraceuticals' or 'designer foods' - must be monitored to assess long-term safety and effectiveness, say a group of scientists writing in today’s British Medical Journal. Nynke de Jong, project director at the Duth Institute and colleagues, focused on the potential risks of cholesterol lowering margarines and yoghurts. These products, he wrote, could trigger reactions in people taking statins - drugs that do the same jo
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