10 August 2023|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability
70 years old and running 5K every other day
Eloquent, humble, smart and looking so, so good; this is Dr Neal Barnard, founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a near 40 year vegan and a great advertisement for a whole food plant based healthy lifestyle!
Great interview by Leif from The Vegan Gym, who flipped his life after a cancer diagnosis in 2013.
See how Dr Barnard took on the US government – and won….
One of Dr Barnard’s books that he references in the interview is on offer this month on Amazon Kindle UK and US.
‘The science behind how common hormone-related conditions—like infertility, weight gain, menopausal symptoms, breast and prostate cancers, thyroid problems, and acne—can be affected by and improved by simple diet changes.’
It’s a great read – and a really great price this month too.
10,000 steps a day? Is that the magic number for health?
Actually it’s more about getting that heart rate up says Dr Jo Blodgett, an epidemiologist at University College London. “The number of steps doesn’t account for how fast people are walking. We know that the faster you walk, the more cardiovascular benefit you’ll gain, so it might be better to take fewer steps but at a faster pace.”
Step it up Mister!
You can read the full article from last week’s Sunday Times here.
‘Watermelon sugar High’ sang Harry Styles on his recent World Tour.
He’s not wrong, watermelons have a plethora of benefits for our bodies: ‘Supports healthy flow of toxins and waste matter from the kidneys and it is incredibly alkaline-forming. It helps reduce body fat, improves the health of our eyes, and so much more.’ Carly Fraser founder of Live Love Fruit shares.
She goes on to explain why we should eat the seeds too:
- High in magnesium
- Rich in lycopene
- High in animo acids
- Rich in B vitamins
- High copper content
- Contain essential fatty acids
- High in phosperous
- Rich in zinc
Full article here
This pic messes with our head: It’s a yellow watermelon bought from our local organic store. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Can you relate? That ‘swan gliding along gracefully with its legs working one hundred to the dozen beneath the surface’.
Us too.
We’ve a huge resource on our site: websites, books, films and podcasts.
We get it.
Scary headline from National Geographic this week.
Something’s amiss here people.
The Office of National Statistics in the UK is reporting a huge number of heart-related excess deaths (50k per week).
The British Heart Foundation has also shared these findings and is speculating on why this is happening.
Please research and look after yourselves.
Our heart health resource is an excellent place to start implementing ways to protect yours.
Before:
Pop one peeled mango, a handful of fresh blueberries, one banana, 2tsp of soft hemp seeds, some almond milk and filtered water into a blender.
After:
A delicious, nutritional Mango and Blueberry milkshake.
Can’t deliver the sunshine however… (but it did give added vitamin D).
Confession – I get little pleasure from cleaning.
I know all the ‘be grateful you have a home to clean’ mantras, but it is not my pastime of choice.
However, these were recommended by a girlfriend and they made the job a whole lot easier.
NO cleaning products required, they call it ‘water-activated cleaning’ – and good old ‘elbow grease’. VERY good for our environment and our bodies too.
E-cloth – we are a fan!
These beauties are home-grown Reine Claude greengages. They’re yellow, not green, as some varieties are.
The yellow, not pink, watermelon messing with our head all over again…
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