This is just a quick link to a post. Some Australian health researchers surveyed GP’s and truck drivers for their ideas on health and weight. It turns out there understanding was about the same.
One of the questions was whether beer or fruit juice had the same number of calories. What do you [...]
Just a quick note for those with some food intolerances (or wanting to lose weight).
This is a blog about cooking that is sugar and gluten free. It is called Simply Sugar and Gluten Free. The recipes look very yummy too!
I have added the site as a link in my blogroll.
Would you like to [...]
Some years ago now some researchers wanted to study the oldest and healthiest populations. They marked these on a map with blue circles. And so these areas came to be known as “Blue Zones”.
There is an on-going project to research these long-lived and healthy people. The results of studying these people – [...]
Continue reading about Societies Characterised by Healthy Old Age: How They Live
Around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century the Western lifestyle began to spread around the world. It was noticed that in the cultures where it was introduced it was followed by the Western diseases.
One of these researchers was Weston Price, and there is now a [...]
We eat every day. What we eat affects our health and how our food is produced affects not only our health but has to do with other people’s lives (the work they do, how well they are paid and so on. This post is a quick round up of posts on the place [...]
Continue reading about Healthy Food, Healthy Society (Making Utopia Real #4)
This post is by Nacie Carson, one of my favourite bloggers. I think you will find it personal, passionate as well as down-to-earth and sensible all at the same time. Enjoy!
These days, the idea that food is simply nourishment and fuel seems lost on most people. Food is fat, food is carbohydrates, [...]
The diet wars don’t show any sign of going away any time soon. There is much conflicting advice around.
I think this has the unfortunate consequence of people not trusting their own taste and judgement and relying on experts. All this seems to be underpinned by the assumption that people are inclined to behave [...]
There have been some book published lately (the ones I know of are published in the US) regarding the dangers of eating soy.
I do believe eating too much soy can cause problems. My partner, who had been vegan and had eaten lots and lots of soy, started having trouble with weight control – possibly [...]
