IFT.org - New food research is suggesting that colored varieties of chickpeas and carrots may make qualify them as “functional foods” or even superfoods with special nutritional benefits.
Colored chickpeas - a functional food
Colored chickpeas have significantly higher antioxidant qualities than the regular cream and beige color varieties, according to a new study in the Journal [...]

AAN.com - Eating chocolate may lower your risk of having a stroke, according to an analysis of available research to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 62nd Annual Meeting in April 2010. Another study found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of death after suffering a stroke.
The analysis involved reviewing three studies [...]

ACS.org - Scientists are reporting the first evidence from human research that blueberries - one of the richest sources of healthful antioxidants, polyphenols and other so-called phytochemicals - improve memory. They said the study establishes a basis for comprehensive human clinical trials to determine whether blueberries really deserve their growing reputation as a memory enhancer. [...]

There may well be another important reason for giving your sweetheart chocolate for Valentine’s Day besides the traditional romantic one: The “chocolate cure” for emotional stress is now getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research. It found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark [...]

AACR.org - Drinking green tea could reduce the effect of cigarette smoking on lung cancer. Results of this hospital-based, randomized study conducted in Taiwan were presented at the 2010 AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer.
“Lung cancer is the leading cause of all cancer deaths in Taiwan,” said I-Hsin Lin, M.S., a student [...]

AACR.org - While it is too early for physicians to start advising their male patients to take up the habit of regular coffee drinking, data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference revealed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and the risk of lethal and advanced prostate [...]