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8 August 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Research papers, Sustainability
Reduce your intake of sulphites and drink good, organic wine. Sorted!
Or, you could choose not to drink alcohol at all…
Whatever your choices there are many benefits to supporting local, organic vineyards. Here’s one of ours:
Sulphites are widespread in the use of conventional wine-making, as they help maintain freshness. No sulphites means, as Alain Rotier told me: ‘You need to drink it quicker’. Shame; their wines are excellent… and have no added sulphites, at all.
43 of the 45 oat samples studied by the Environmental Working Group contained glyphosate. You really don’t want that in your body, but sadly mostly of us now have. The above test results are shocking by any standard – even some of the organic samples had it in them….
Julia Bradbury is a woman on a mission.
She had a mastectomy last year after being diagnosed with breast cancer and has been all over the media since, sharing what she is learning to help her reduce the chances of recurrence.
We follow one another on social media and will continue to cheer her on as she explores the link between lifestyle and illness and uses her vast platform to share it for all to see.
Here’s an article from this month’s Woman and Home magazine.
Yesterday’s You magazine featured another woman on a mission on its cover: Ella Mills is the founder of ‘The 60M brand that took (cacao) balls to build’ Deliciously Ella.
I guess it’s unsurprising that so many of the people featured on our site began their projects/careers/businesses to share what they learned whilst healing. That’s how Double-zero began too.
The magazine article talks of Ella’s ‘Family, Fame and Facing down her haters’.
Keep inspiring Ella.
As for the rest, well, bring it on.
Been doing a bit of market research at DZ Headquarters:
We’ve been searching for crisps that taste like crisps, that are just a little bit less bad for our bodies.
And the winner is: These.
They look like crisps (NOT green) and they absolutely taste like crisps.
Biggest ingredient: Organic lentil flour 48%
‘Source of protein and fibre’, says the packet and ‘low in saturated fat’.
I have a crisp connoisseur in the house – who proceeded to dive in… Result.
Another win was this gluten-free vegan pizza. I bought the base (rice flour/potato), used some store-bought passata, chopped red peppers, tomatoes and onions from our village, then seasoned with a handful of fresh coriander, salt and pepper.
5 minute lunch. All gone.
I’ve been in the kitchen A LOT this week, hiding from the heat mostly, but also making the most of the abundance of local produce that’s available right now.
This is peperonata from The Pesky Vegan, who you’ll find on the site. This is the third of his recipes we’ve cooked. It will not be the last.
The combo of stewed peppers, balsamic, capers and olives. Mmmmm. It had mushrooms added on Day 2 and was taken on a picnic and eaten cold with chopped up fresh tomatoes on Day 3.
Vegan food – batch cooking. Way to go!
‘Matcha green tea inhibits the propagation of cancer stem cells’ states a 2018 study published in the government-run National Library of Medicine.
So what exactly is matcha? Here’s Wikipedia’s definition:
‘Matcha is finely ground powder of specially grown and processed green tea leaves, traditionally consumed in East Asia. The green tea plants used for matcha are shade-grown for three to four weeks before harvest; the stems and veins are removed during processing’.
I tried it as an iced tea a few week’s ago – and really enjoyed it. Win/win.