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Reduce your risk of a heart disease with a low GI diet The statistics for heart disease are pretty much the same everywhere in the developed world. It’s the biggest killer. Often the cause is atherosclerosis or ‘hardening of the arteries’ which develops slowly and quietly for years until bingo, it suddenly produces the stabbing …
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Why some of us are designed to drink milk and others aren’t ‘The answer lies in evolution and genetic changes and not in ideology,’ says Glenn Cardwell. Glenn Cardwell What is lactose intolerance? Our major source of lactose is milk (cow, goat, sheep, domesticated buffalo, camel and human) or yogurt. It is not found in …
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Prime your metabolism to burn fat with a low GI breakfast Breakfast jump-starts your metabolism, helps you concentrate better (no hunger pangs to distract you) and generally gets the day off to a good start. Forget the excuses. It’s easy to whip up. There actually aren’t fixed rules about when to have breakfast. We all …
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Better breads for blood glucose However you slice it, bread is truly a staple food. It’s not particularly fattening (a typical slice has around 300 kJ/70 cals) so long as you watch what you spread on it, and it’s an affordable convenience food. However, most breads on supermarket shelves – and that includes most English …
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Fat burning is free ‘People love to hear that certain foods, exercise and tablets are fat burning,’ says dietitian Glenn Cardwell. Glenn Cardwell ‘Back in the early 1990s I was in the national media because I called fat metaboliser and fat mobiliser tablets a big fat scam. The response by the tablet manufacturers was quite …
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The veggies have it – again Healthy eating is one of the best gifts a mother-to-be can give her growing baby says dietitian Kaye Foster-Powell in her Low GI Family Cookbook. ‘We shape our children’s health and wellbeing from the moment they are conceived. What a woman eats when she is pregnant influences her baby’s …
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How to read articles about health and healthcare By Dr Alicia White ‘If you’ve just read a health-related headline that’s caused you to spit out your morning coffee (“Coffee causes cancer” usually does the trick) it’s always best to follow the Blitz slogan: “Keep Calm and Carry On”. On reading further you’ll often find the …
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Off the couch and into the kitchen In a typically thought provoking piece in the New York Times magazine, ‘Out of the Kitchen, onto the Couch’, Michael Pollan writes: ‘…here’s what I don’t get: How is it that we are so eager to watch other people browning beef cubes on screen but so much less …
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Obesity – a potent cause of evolutionary change ‘Evolution on the farm transformed society ten millennia ago and is doing the same today. Farmers have been powerful agents of selection on wheat, maize, cows, pigs, chickens and more, but the influence of those domestic creatures on the biology of the farmers has been almost as …
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Not sleeping enough and not sleeping well is not OK ‘Most of us don’t get enough sleep and this promotes weight gain and increases our risk of developing diabetes and heart disease,’ says dietitian and exercise physiologist Caitlin Reid in her new book, Health & the City. ‘Inadequate sleep also increases daytime sleepiness and our …
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