Love is Thicker than Icecream
3 May 2023|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Research papers, Sustainability, Testimonials
When your grandfather founds the world’s largest ice-cream speciality shops on the planet (Baskin Robbins), how does it work when his only son decides to not eat sugar and processed food? Not easily… Here’s the grandson’s first TED Talk – it’s a powerful testimony to the power of our food choices. You may recognise him from our site: The Food Revolution Network are featured all over Double-zero.
So, can food make us happy? You’ll have to watch the Talk…
Professor Tim Spector’s latest book: Food for Life, is our current read. We’ve just added his website to ours too, long overdue.
He’s a leading light shining on the dangers of ultra-processed food. Go Tim!
Vegan spaghetti bolognese for lunch today (and tomorrow, the recipe is for 6). Thank you The Pesky Vegan for another well received hit!
We made it with double the mushrooms and no mince. Delicious.
You’ll find Alistair’s site featured alongside stacks of other healthy food options here.
50 simple things is the title of an article we spotted during the week. Some real wisdom here: decluttering, simplifying, breathing, focusing on the present. Joshua Becker from Becoming Minimalist is one of the wise people featured. You can find more from him on our sustainability resource here. We’ll leave you with this nugget: ‘The best things in life aren’t things.’
Which brings us nicely onto this subject:
We LOVE Donna Ashworth’s work. This one’s a bargain at £1.99 on Amazon’s Kindle UK this month.
Her words just, well, they work. Her site‘s featured on our Healthy Mind resource, where you can get a sense of LOVE for free.
The European Association for the Study of Diabetes’ new research recommends eating plant foods and avoiding red and processed meat. You can fight it, but there are more and more studies that show that a whole food plant based diet is the best option for our health and that of our planet. That’s not us saying it (though we endorse those views), it’s coming time and time again now…
The new guidelines also recommend those with diabetes consume up to 35g of fibre per day.
With an anticipated 200M new cases expecting within the next 20 years this is a ticking bomb.
Sara’s first book (Ticking off Breast Cancer) and website (tickingoffbreastcancer.com) have featured on our cancer resource since day one. Since recovering from breast cancer (diagnosed in 2016) she’s now released two books. If this newly released, and already Amazon bestseller, is as good as the first one, she’ll take you through final treatment to 5 year all clear with a range of emotions that you can’t fail to admire.
Sample downloaded – reading has begun…
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‘Dead white man’s clothes’ anyone?
An article in The Times newspaper in the UK sheds light on ‘monstrous “tentacles” of old clothes, some up to 30ft long, which have become so embedded in the landscape that removing them would cause more harm than good. “You have a generation of young people who have never seen a beach that isn’t covered in textile waste. It’s not something the average person in the UK can understand, or even imagine.”’ Liz Ricketts.
Liz is the chief executive of The Or Foundation, an environmental justice charity based in Ghana. At Accra’s Kantamanto market, artisan traders buy “dead white man’s clothes” by the bale, sight unseen, for anywhere between $120 to $500.
So what is the answer to reducing waste? ‘They also need to shop from the places they’re donating to’ says Liz. Makes a whole lot of sense…
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