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Serious Weight Loss

If you are searching for inspiration for serious weight loss then this blog could be for you. We urge caution.  But here is the back story.

25 Diets

"Some people will do anything to lose weight, even if it means defying common sense and nutrition," says Jessica Hupp of the website RNCentral, a site dedicated to nursing. What can she mean?

Okinawa Way Updates

Brad Willcox, who wrote the Okinawa diet books with his brother Craig, has an article out on whether long-living is more genetically influenced than it is diet and lifestyle. Nature or nurture.... Willcox is never anything other than straight in the way he treats the science.

Best Food Websites

The Rodale Institute's website must be by far the best food website I've ever come across. Here you can read farmers and consumers talking to each other and you get what must be the most intelligent take available on the major food concerns. That's largely because it is written by experienced farm and nutrition experts on their journey towards sustainability.

Try With a Little Help From Your (Blog) Friends

Dieting can be a lonely experience. If you are not one to join weight loss clubs like Weight Watchers or Unislim, it can be hard to keep on track.
It needn't be so lonesome, though. There are enough people like you and they can be found in the blogosphere!
Posted by Roos

Sour Salad

On the subject of diversifying your taste and redeveloping taste intelligence here is a salad that is perfect at this time of year. It wasn't until we started gardening that we realised salads come into their own in the Autumn. This is an unusual salad but then.... you want to change the way you eat.

Posted by Haydn


Diet and Body Image

I was looking back through some of my notes on how and what I eat when I came across this from almost a year ago, precisely. It seemed to sum up how I feel now.

Posted by Haydn


The Health Benefits Of Beetroot

It'd be hard to write an article that began: the health benefits of pasta. It is much easier when the subject is beetroot. Beetroot is a gone-out-of-fashion vegetable for those of us in the antiseptic west. It is a messy vegetable to deal with. its juices can stain your clothes; it often arrives with soil on and needs cleaning and of course people don't know how long it needs to cook so it is a puzzle. On the other hand its health benefits are legion.


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