The scientists at British Heart Foundation decided to find out which diet plan is the unhealthiest one. Previous studies were focused on healthy diets, indicating the Mediterranean diet as the most beneficial one, but scientists took little or no interest in the most unhealthy diet plans. With this in mind, they studied eating patterns of more than 52 000 people from 62 countries. Full story

A two-stage study has shown, that women, who follow Mediterranean diet in pregnancy, also protect their babies from childhood asthma and allergy. During the first stage of the study, 1997, doctors recruited 507 women who attended an antenatal clinic on Menorca, Spain. These women were quizzed about their dietary habits. Six years later the children of these women were examined for asthma and were tested to see if their organisms responded to six common allergens. The researchers found, that the diet of children did not influence the fact whether they had these problems. The main reason was the dietary intake of the mothers while pregnant. Full story