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Healthy Eating Soy, Health, Cancer
Women who eat traditional Japanese soy-based foods on a regular basis face lower risks of breast cancer, a Japanese government-sponsored study reported today. But read the small print.
The Healthy Eating Debate
Recently we had reason to write about Michael Pollan's book in Defense of Food (we'll post that article soon). Quite by chance we then came across Yoni Freedhoff's Weighty Matters. I think we're on the same page. It's Canada based but don't let the narrow geographical focus put you off. This is an important blog. Why?
BBC Removes Complimentary Medicine Content
This may not affect the majority of our readers - who tend to be from the USA - but the BBC website is one of the most accessed in the world and is truly global in coverage. When they decided to remove all their complimentary medicine coverage, therapists in the UK decided to protest. We thought it was worth a line or two here.Indian Food Bloggers
In London they have restaurants such as the Masala Zone which serve authentic ayurvedic food. Its objective is perfect balance and having eaten there I can attest to how easy the food is to digest. Indian food comes to us via restaurants geared around western tastes (often unpalatable if you care about food) and a limited number of recipe books (whose authenticity is hard to judge). Where else can you explore?Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Tomatoes as we all know are members of the deadly nightshade family and were long believed toxic, at least in countries without the tomato eating habit. They were viewed with great suspicion when first introduced to Europe and as late as the 21st century the myth of a possible downside to the tomato persists.The Health Benefits of....
We've posted numerous articles over the past eighteen months that recount the health benefits of particular foods. The health benefits of sweet potato, the health benefits of ginger etc. Here's a round-up.
Health Benefits of Tea
The popularity of green tea as a health drink is equalled only by the number of people who really don't like to drink it. Before we go on to the health benefits, what can be done about its bitter taste? How can you actually enjoy the health benefits of green tea, as in sipping and saying mmmm?
A bit like sprouts, green tea can be offputting and indeed the taste is not vastly dissimilar. The trick is in the temperature of the water. More of that later. If you've traditionally been a wincer when it comes to green tea, read on.
Marcolini Chocolates
If you're going to eat chocolate, and why shouldn't you, even if you do diet, then best to eat the best.
Belgian by birth, chocolatier Pierre Marcolini's parents hail from Verona, the same Italian city where the Capulet and Montague children, Romeo and Juliet, lived and died. "The ville d'amour" says Marcolini, and claims, with a light laugh, that this is where his love of chocolate began.
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