Vitamin B12, found in meat, fish and milk may help prevent memory loss in old people, new study has found. Low levels of this vitamin may cause brain atrophy or shrinkage.

Researchers from the University of Oxford in England studied 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87 without memory or thinking problems. The average age of participants was 73, and 54 percent were women

Flour and bread should be fortified with folic acid to lessen the risk of birth defects such as spina bifida, the Expert Advisory Group on Nutrition said Monday. The group recommends that fortification be mandatory, but some say the initiative would take away individual choice and could mask signs of vitamin deficiency in elderly people.

Now the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will begin a 3-month consultation to see how the public feels about the issue

Your grandmother's eating habits may have an influence on your genes, a new study on pregnant mice suggests. The researchers found that a mother mouse's diet had an effect on her offspring's offspring.

"This is a mouse model study, so it is not directly relevant to humans," study co-author Dr. David K. Martin, a researcher with the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, tells HealthDay News

Doctors in Goa have gathered to talk about the little known risk factors of hyperhomocysteinemia; the condition which can eventually lead to heart disease.

Some of the risk factors include the following: heart attacks, paralytic strokes and other complicated diseases