Gone To Pot -

When your world’s going to pot – reach for a pot and make yourself a quick, satisfying, nutritious chili. This one was just perfect after a difficult week. You can find Laura’s site The First Mess at the top of our recipe resource. She hasn’t let us down yet.

Great article from The Blue Zone peeps here. It explains how there are two types of inflammation, one good, one not so much. ‘Inflammation is a natural immune system response designed to keep the body healthy. In fact, we need short-term or acute inflammation for survival to fight off foreign bodies and heal the body.’ Carolyn Williams PhD, RD. The problem is that ‘most chronic inflammation today is due to a combination of environmental exposures and lifestyle factors.’ Which is the wrong sort.

Relieve a bit of that stress watching ‘Talking With Docs‘ share their medical know-how. Serious subject our bone health and they cover it with lots of information and tips to improve yours. With almost 1M followers on their YouTube channel we’re clearly not the only ones watching them!

More seriousness here regarding Slushies which our kids plead for each summer. The UK’s Food Standard Agency (FSA) issued guidance on glycerol in slush-ice drinks in August 2023, advising that they should not be sold to children 4 years of age and under. There are now calls to increase that limit to under 8 year olds.

Glycerol is a natural sweetener, but can be dangerous at very high levels, as are found in these drinks. Glycerol intoxication can cause shock, hypoglycaemia and loss of consciousness, according to the government body. Worth the risk?

A new study has just been released sharing the dangers of aspartame too. There’s a message here…

That last line from this Wall Street Journal article. Maybe Americans’ overall perception of food needs to be reshaped? Given the articles above may it not be a bad thing?

Here’s one American who’s all for changing our system back to ‘ancestral foods’. We’ve added Chris Kresser‘s work to our site this week.

We’ll be here on Saturday evening compering the event and speaking about cancer prevention. Changes in our food environment will certainly be spoken of, cards distributed and conversations started.

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