"IT'S all rubbish!" cry the sceptics steeped in conventional medicine. Yet for all their clamour, it's clear that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) works, and can sometimes rid people of chronic disease. How do we bridge this gap? Do we continue to treat one branch of medicine as science and the other as magic? Perhaps there's a third way.

Carolyn's comment: This article was sent through by a subscriber who also wrote: 'This is seriously scary stuff - labelling GM modified foods as healthy!!! Who wants grains with fish oils in them?????' I agree wholeheartedly - what happened to just eating the foods that naturally have all these things in them?? 

Australia
Monday, 7 May 2007

A new generation of grain-based foods could soon play a major role in improving public health, according to one of Australia's leading biologists, CSIRO's Dr Matthew Morell. 

In an address today to BIO 07 in Boston, USA, Dr Morell says ongoing research into new high-fibre barleys, high-amylose wheat varieties and oilseeds which are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, should soon lead to the production of cereals and other foods which will help improve bowel and heart health. CSIRO's research into high-amylose wheat (HAW) is part of a $12.5 million international collaboration with Australia's Grains Research and Development Corporation and French farmer-owned company, Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients. Building on core technology developed by CSIRO's Food Futures National Research Flagship and Biogemma (Limagrain's biotech subsidiary), the joint venture recently produced an experimental wheat variety with an amylose content of 70pc.