Food Research: Organic food to have longer 'life' with super chilling technique ♦ Waiting to harvest after a rain enhances food safety ♦ Improving rice flour to aid food poverty

Healthy diet linked to lower death rates among low-income residents in Southeastern USA Eating a healthy diet was linked with a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, cancer or other diseases among a population of low-income individuals living in the Southeastern U.S., according to investigators. Nearly two-thirds of the participants in the study were African-American.

Organic food to have longer 'life' with super chilling technique A new method keeps salmon fresh for a whole month, without the use of chemicals. The technology is called super chilling, and it lies somewhere between freezing the fish and cooling it down. Now it is about to provide useful help to organic food producers

Improving rice flour to aid food poverty A new, high-quality rice flour could help towards aiding global food poverty. 'This rice flour serves not only as an alternative to wheat flour for those with wheat intolerance, but could also help to overcome the global food problem in the future,'

Waiting to harvest after a rain enhances food safety To protect consumers from food borne illness, produce farmers should wait 24 hours after a rain or irrigating their fields to harvest crops, experts say. Rain or irrigation creates soil conditions that are more hospitable to Listeria monocytogenes, which when ingested may cause the human illness Listeriosis. Waiting to harvest crops reduces the risk of exposure to the pathogen, which could land on fresh produce.

Heart Research:Heart bypass surgery outperforms new generation stents ♦ Patients 80 years old benefit from aggressive treatment ♦ Healthy diet reduces risk of cardiovascular disease + more

Heart bypass surgery outperforms new generation stents Despite the advent of a new generation of stents, patients with multiple narrowed arteries in the heart who received coronary artery bypass grafting fared better than those whose arteries were opened with balloon angioplasty and stents Continue Reading

Acute coronary syndromes: Patients 80 years and older would benefit from aggressive treatment  Patients over age 80 with acute coronary syndromes would likely benefit from more invasive tests and therapies that may otherwise be denied them due to their age, according to research .Continue Reading

Frequency of blood tests in heart surgery patients may lead to anemia. Laboratory testing among patients undergoing cardiac surgery can lead to excessive bloodletting, which can increase the risk of developing hospital-acquired anemia and the need for blood transfusion, according to a new article. Continue Reading

Healthy diet reduces risk of cardiovascular disease by a third in over-40s  Men and women who adapt their daily diet to meet current UK dietary guidelines could reduce their risk of a heart attack or a stroke by up to a third. Those on the modified diet ate oily fish once a week, more fruit and vegetables, replaced refined with wholegrain cereals, swapped high-fat dairy products and meats for low-fat alternatives, and restricted their intake of added sugar and salt  Continue Reading