A crispy, cheesy, salty cracker that's great with pâté, cheese or just on it's own. Ingredients (Makes 12 crackers with a 6cm diameter cutter) 170g Almond Flour 30g Melted Butter 2 Tablespoons Grated Parmesan Cheese 1 Egg 1 Teaspoon Onion Granules 1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper Sea Salt Method Combine all ingredients in a bowl, mix …
The Bitter Sweet Truth About What We Eat – A Debate
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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Saturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-based Recommendations
The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke. Although SFAs increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol, …
Tocotrienols – Has Vitamin E Been Completely Misunderstood?
Ivor Cummins Podcast Published on 23 Jun 2020 "What an engaging and passionate scientist - and he's a proper gentleman to boot! I had a great time chatting to Dr. Barrie Tan late last year, on the fascinating science behind Vitamin E. He has dedicated decades of his life to researching it, and it shows. I …
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Fat Fiction – The Documentary Movie
"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
