"For most of human history there has been very little starch or sugar in the human diet. In fact, if you put all of human history into one year, it's only in the last day that we started eating grains or bread and it's only in the last hour that people have been eating sugar." …
Daily Mail Highlights Vitamin D Study
A preliminary study has found tentative evidence suggesting low levels of vitamin D may make it more likely an individual will die after contracting coronavirus. The research compared average levels of vitamin D across 20 European countries with COVID-19 infection rate and mortality. It revealed a convincing correlation where countries with low vitamin D levels …
Eureka Bread – New & Improved Recipe!
Having attempted many of the low carb bread recipes the internet has to offer, I continually found them to be either very complicated, expensive and time consuming to produce, eggy, falling apart easily or having a strange aftertaste. This new and improved recipe, which is an adaptation from a chaffle recipe from Serious Keto is, in …
Let Them Eat Dirt – Why Dirt & Microbes Could Be Good for Us
Have we become too clean? Brett Finlay discusses whether we have taken our war on germs a step too far, the research on tailored diets to address diabetes and obesity, fecal transplants for IBS, how microbes play a part in atherosclerosis, heart disease, strokes, depression, body odour, even jet lag. The gut-brain axis, autism, ADHD, …
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A Low-Carb Strategy for Fighting the Pandemic’s Toll
Download a PDF version of this blog post Link to story as originally printed in the Wall Street Journal By Nina Teicholz May 31, 2020 The coronavirus has added a brutal exclamation point to America’s pervasive ill health. Americans with obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other diet-related diseases are about three times more likely to suffer …
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Let Them Eat Their Custard Creams!
A timely video (35 mins) from the Public Health Collaboration to offer food for thought in these troubled times... Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-gQ5Gt7_Ac&t=633s
Vitamin D Determines Severity in Covid 19
Vitamin D Determines Severity in COVID-19: Researchers Urge Government to Change Advice Trinity College Dublin researchers point to changes in government advice in Wales, England and Scotland. Link to Original Article Further reading on this subject
Your Gut – Where Health Starts
Increasingly research is revealing that gut health is critical to overall health, especially our immune system. This presentation is one of the most information packed lectures on the subject covering 10 top tips for good gut health in an easy to digest (pun intended) hour-long lecture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdEEC4i_3w Link - https://youtu.be/SRdEEC4i_3w Further Viewing - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ben+warren
Choc Chip & Cranberry Cookies
Searching for a recipe for an Easter egg replacement treat I found this recipe on YouTube modifying it slightly by omitting the sweetener, and sugar free (but not sweetener free) choc chips, replacing these with a small amount of unsweetened cranberries and very dark chocolate. The result is a portion controlled (makes two) cookie that really …
Nitric Oxide – A Molecule That Diminishes As We Age
Roughly 30 years ago scientists discovered that humans an animals produce nitric oxide, over 150,000 papers have been published on this molecule and a nobel prize was awarded to the scientists who discovered its importance in heart health. Having a half-life of less than one second shows just how amazing this discovery was at the …
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