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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Nutrition
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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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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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