Living The Low Carb Lifestyle
The following passage is taken from the online introduction to the debate What should we be eating to live a long and healthy life? How is it that some people can eat absolutely anything and stay slim, while others on a ‘healthy’ diet get fat? Why is it that Cubans are much healthier than Americans, …
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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 …
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 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
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
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 …
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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I thought I would re post this article from a while back as I recently spent some of my time in 'lockdown' planting a fresh batch of beets ready for a steady supply of leafy greens to see me through the possibility of my local grocer running low on fresh produce. Dr. David Perlmutter recently …
A few days ago I watched a very informative and thought provoking presentation by Dr David Perlmutter. He is the editor of The Microbiome and the Brain authored by top experts in the field. Dr. Perlmutter is also the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Linus Pauling Award for his innovative approaches to neurological disorders; …
Struggling for another way to consume my quota of cruciferous vegetables I was inspired by a Jamie Oliver recipe from his super-foods book replacing the brown rice with the cauliflower. I have always been a little apprehensive of using cauliflower without disguising its acrid scent with lashings of cheese or butter but in this recipe …
