A Flirty Microwave
7 November 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Research papers, Sustainability
and a vegan rugby team.
Which one of those two thoughts is stranger to you? One of them is very real: here’s a mad 10 minute video, in which you’ll meet The Green Gazelles, the world’s first vegan rugby team.
Couscous. Such a easy option: Add one cup of organic, whole-grain couscous and one and a half cups of boiling water to a bowl, stir and leave for a few minutes. That’s it, the base for a stack of healthy meals.
Above is day one; fried mushrooms and tomatoes, with couscous and micro-greens.
To the right is the next day; again with tomatoes, fresh basil, sunflower seeds for protein and pomegranate.
Pomegranate – that beautiful, jewelled fruit, is currently in season in Europe. It’s delicious, super good for you and being frozen here almost daily (it’s a short season and it’s so easy to keep to bring colour, flavour and goodness to a variety of dishes for the rest of the year).
Chris Wark features on our site and we often share when his fab Square One cancer program is free to air. This was an Instagram feed earlier in the week where Chris shared a video from an oncology nurse, who left her profession to retrain as a nutritionist. It was a powerful post in which the nurse shared that she could no longer work in an environment, knowing that nutrition could and often did vastly change cancer outcomes, yet that knowledge wasn’t being widely shared with patients. Powerful stuff, which we’ve seen to be true.
Speaking of the difference nutrition makes in our lives; You can sign up here for a FREE program from The Food Revolution Network
Want to improve your heart and immune health? Your energy levels? Experience weight loss? Bust through brain fog? Bring down chronic inflammation? Then this could be for you.
While we’re on the subject of nutrition…
Dr Alan Desmond shared findings from a massive research study this week. Big data: 3 million people, with ten years of follow-up.
The findings: Regardless of other behaviours (like alcohol use, smoking, or exercise) plant-based diets were protective across the board. People who didn’t eat meat were up to 36% less likely to be diagnosed with any cancer of the digestive tract.
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These benefits reported in this huge meta-analysis are impressive:
Pancreatic cancer risk reduced by up to 41%.
Stomach cancer: 53%.
Liver cancer: 32%.
Colorectal cancer: 31%
Conclusions: Plant-based diets were protective against cancers of the digestive system, with no significant differences between different types of cancer.
One or two slices with your pesticides? This report from The Guardian, UK, is a shocker.
‘Half of bread sold in the UK contains at least two different pesticides, government data has revealed.
According to analysis by Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN), this is a rise of 50% from last year, and a major increase over the past decade when, on average, roughly 25% of bread has been found to contain pesticide cocktails.’
We can and should do better.
Can you be vegan and strong? Where’d you get your protein from? Do you need calcium for bone health? Yes. Plants. No.
Cleared that up then!
This is a soon-to-be-released film with several familiar faces from our site. You can spot Dr Alan Desmond, The Happy Pear brothers and Gemma Newman aka The Plant Powered Doctor in this two minute clip. Oh, and how animal farming is polluting our planet – don’t get us started…
Exercise as medicine. Thought-provoking TED talk from Dr Hazel Wallace aka The Food Medic, who joined our site this week:
She’s a double-certified GP and nutritionist, passionate about sharing with her NHS patients the life-changing benefits improved nutrition would make to them.
She’s released a book on women’s health too, after her Instagram posts on the subject led to so much discussion.
In it she shares how nutrition plays a role across the menstrual cycle. How fitness is shaped by physical make-up. How hormones affect mental health across our lifespan; and how sleep can save all of our sanity, no matter the day of the month. 50 new recipes to be found there too.
At less than a pound/euro on Amazon Kindle Uk/Fr this month it’s a steal.
Twitter got busy this week after we commented on a post about The Coca Cola company sponsoring the upcoming COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
This was the graphic that started it all off.
‘Greenwashing‘ seems to be the word that’s being used regarding the summit. Even Greta’s moved on this year…
November in SW France is not usually conducive to flowering roses. We’ve currently the summer and winter flowers flowering, all very confused. As are many humans; I’m typing in front of the fire, having had lunch outside in the sunshine. What is going on?
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