Phenomenal Ferments
Posted on 14 October 2017
Fermenting is quite a thing these days. Kefir has been a big topic on The Archers for months now, so clearly the time has arrived to embrace the world of fermented foods. You can see my own...
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Gut Health
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My sister's zucchini bread - scrumptious!
Posted on 15 April 2017
With Easter weekend upon us, I had some time to bake. I NEVER bake. Largely because I choose not to eat flours or sugars, so options are a little limited, although since the Paleo movement...
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Alcohol - how bad is it for health?
Posted on 26 March 2017
I am often asked ?which alcohol is best? or ?how much alcohol is ok?. Well, neither of these questions, as with nutritional science in general, have a straightforward answer. There is very...
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Why you should be including purple super-foods in your diet
Posted on 21 February 2017
In the world of fruit and vegetables, there is a definite hierarchy of popularity which determines what exactly we buy when out food shopping. Typically in most baskets and trolleys, you’ve...
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The joy of nuts!
Posted on 13 December 2016
As Christmas approaches, the supermarkets and farmers markets are full of in-shell nuts. In shell as opposed to shelled are a good option for 2 very good reasons: 1. The very process of cra...
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Is it you craving sugar, or your gut microbes?
Posted on 12 November 2016
Fungi are incredible things. They are not plant but not animal, they are essential to life and they are everywhere including inside your body. As you will know if you’ve read previous blogs...
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Healthy Diet = Healthy Gut = Healthy Brain
Posted on 24 May 2015
Further to my previous post on how new research is finding a strong link between chronic high blood sugar levels and Alzheimer’s, I have been looking in to the gut- brain connection a lot m...
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