Happy new year to you all ! I thought I’d kick off 2015 with some health snippets gleaned from the press round ups so ubiquitous around the end of the year…. – Consensus on saturated fats looks finally to have been overturned: Cambridge university researchers looked at 60,000 people in 18 countries and found no […]
The oft-hated Brussels sprout is the nutritional king of the cruciferous veg family and, if prepared right, can be a spectacular and cheap staple over the winter months… 1) key rule: DONT OVERCOOK them- they go smelly and dull coloured. 2) buy ’em still attached to their stalk- they stay fresher for longer, are cheaper […]
Ingredient 1: ALMONDS The humble almond is NOT in fact a nut, but the edible seed from the fruit of the almond tree. Technically (and to boost your general knowledge!), almonds are known as drupes (where the fleshy part contains the seed- like peaches and plums…). Health benefits are legion: • Low in sugar, high […]
Intermittent Fasting Part II- The Health Benefits Even though life expectancy in the western world increased form 45 to 77 years of age over the 20th century, the increase in healthy life expectancy was much less marked. Naturopathic and osteopathic principles then, are about increasing quality of life rather than just preventing death. As mentioned […]
Multi-day water fasting has been a recipe for better health since Greco-Roman times. Anecdotal evidence from church records during the Irish potato famine in the 1920s showed that children brought up during this period lived significantly longer than previous generations. Similarly, medical physician Emile Juste documented an almost a 100% eradication of “diseases of affluence” […]
Do you suffer with joint pain or stiff and achy muscles? It could be a result of low vitamin D levels. It is estimated that 50% of UK adults and 90% of British south Asians are vitamin D deficient. These high figures could be a consequence of our climate. Though some vitamin D is available […]
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