Hemp
19/11/2016 |
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- Food
It’s probably safe to assume that most don’t think of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, as a food product. Although it’s best known as ‘weed’, its use as a food has recently skyrocketed.
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Veggie warning: nonsense!
16/11/2016 |
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This week, protein supplement company P-fit released the results of their survey of 2,498 vegetarians saying that most of them believed their diet was lacking in – you’ve guessed it…
Honey – the new hope or the new hype?
25/10/2016 |
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- Age Related Health Problems
- Antioxidants
- Farting/Flatulence
- Mental Health & Cognitive Function
How is honey made? Producing honey is hard work: a bee makes just a twelfth of a teaspoon in her lifetime. Female foraging worker bees collect nectar from flowers. When…
Childhood obesity rates soaring
04/10/2016 |
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However, the widespread warnings don’t seem to translate into action. According to the government’s national diet surveys from recent years, the average intake of saturated fat, sugars and salt in…
Big fat lies
19/09/2016 |
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- Obesity and Overweight
In March 2014, national headlines declared “Saturated fat ‘ISN’T bad for your heart‘” suggesting it is safe to gorge on butter, cheese and sausages. However, the study in question got the…
Meat Contributes to Obesity As Much As Sugar
11/08/2016 |
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The scientists analysed data from 170 countries with regards to differences in lifestyle, physical activity and calorie intake and found that the availability of meat accounted for 13 per cent…
The debate about vegan children…
09/08/2016 |
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This week the BBC Good Food website published a story asking if a vegan diet can be healthy for kids and the answer was yes! They said “with the right…
Vegans live longer
03/08/2016 |
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The study, published in the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal, followed the diets, health and mortality of over 130,000 people over the course of thirty years. It found that every three…
People with cancer can now expect to live longer – but are we missing the point?
01/08/2016 |
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What the headlines are not saying is that more people than ever are being diagnosed with cancer. In the UK, one in every two people born after 1960 will be…
Vitamin D conundrum
21/07/2016 |
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As more research shows Brits are not getting enough vitamin D, the government health advisers recommend we up the intake of foods containing this vitamin or take supplements in order…
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