The ABC of Omega 3
Posted on 4 April 2018
A lot of questions have come in lately about the essential fatty acid omega 3 and how to ensure we are getting enough of this ?essential? nutrient. Omega 3 is known as an essential fatty ac...
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Nutrition
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Rev up the healing power of your garlic
Posted on 3 March 2018
Super-charge the extraordinary healing powers of garlic by chopping, crushing or grating & leave exposed to the air for at least 10 minutes. The allicin, the active compound that revs up im...
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Mind Your Oats!
Posted on 18 February 2018
Whenever I mention in my health talks that oats aren?t ?all that?, people are often shocked and horrified. ?But oats are really healthy aren?t they?…? I hear over and over again. Well, yes...
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New Year, Same You?…..
Posted on 14 January 2018
A new year and as usual a mad frenzy of media, TV and articles on the latest must-do extreme diets; extreme exercise regimes; dubious explanations of what works, what doesn?t, ugghh! I find...
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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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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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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 magical powers of black seed oil
Posted on 14 January 2017
My current favourite health tip is Black Seed Oil. I was recently given some freshly cold pressed, organic oil from this magical seed so I spent some time looking in to the active propertie...
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Forget the diets, focus on the joy of getting healthy
Posted on 6 January 2017
Of course this is the time for dieting, new regimes, promises of no more of this and must have less of that, but really, how long do these resolutions last? I am not suggesting you don?t se...
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