An expensive day in court again last week for Bayer as a jury returned a unanimous verdict; that Roundup is a cancer-causing product. (Washington Post article here). Bayer had already agreed to pay about $10 billion in a settlement to tens of thousands of claimants over the allegation that Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020. (Washington Post article here).
The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer reported in 2015 that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” (IARC article here).
Yet it continues – oh, it’s World Cancer Day on Sunday 4 February…
Antispike is a new supplement, launched by biochemist Jesse Inchauspé aka the Glucose Goddess, on social media yesterday. It’s a natural product; lemon extract, vegetable extract, cinnamon extract and white mulberry leaf, designed to minimise sugar spikes after eating carbs and sugar. As her new website shares: ‘glucose spikes makes you exhausted, cranky, kick-off sugar addiction, hurt your hormones, your sleep, your skin, and also lead to type 2 diabetes.’
Can’t help thinking of a friend who takes statins believing they’ll protect his arteries as he continues with his unhealthy diet. The ingredients are sound, with much research validating their individual effects on our blood glucose, but no research has been conducted on their effects when combined…
Maybe best to eat less cake to stabilise our blood sugar?
I met the delightful Ella Mills last week. Ella started a blog ‘Deliciously Ella’ many moons ago, to share how a healthy plant-based diet had helped her off 25 (!) different medications whilst she was a student. Today she has the no1 selling book on Amazon UK in all categories. ‘Healthy Made Simple’ follows her mantra of ‘more plants, for more people, more of the time’. Now that makes sense.
Success is not always linear however, as she shared on social media, it’s not always been easy.
Introduced a friend to an ingredient that Ella uses A LOT in her recipes: nutritional yeast. It’s a powerhouse of health, as this article from Web MD shows, and has a great ‘cheesy’ flavour for recipes like this vegan mac n cheese too. It may not look like ‘healthy’ food, but it is packed with protein and fibre, with NO sugar.
Spring’s on it’s way. Always a joy to see new growth. We are; feeding our minds with knowledge, our bodies with fresh air and our souls with anticipation of a new season and new opportunities.
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