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BBC Radio 4 Food Programme on legislation for health claims for foods

Posted on 23rd March 2010 | Add a comment
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The Food Programme looks at new legislation controlling how food companies can make health claims for their products. There’s a segment in there about a research group who look at prebiotics and probiotics, particularly yoghurts, which is funded by the food industry. Note how, when he talks about the benefits of strains of bifidus, the […]

Probiotics may be useful in some medical settings, and may be extremely harmful in others

Posted on 19th November 2009 | Add a comment
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BBC Radio 4’s Case Notes talks to Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Professor of Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who has a special interest in the use of probiotics to reduce some of the unwanted side effects of antibiotics in his elderly patients. Marnie Chesterton reports from Utrect in the Netherlands, where trials […]