‘80% of heart disease is environment and lifestyle’.
Dr Aseem makes the link between highly processed foods and insulin resistance, which drives heart disease in over 80% of cases. Throw in a sedentary lifestyle, with a topping of stress and not enough sleep and voila!
This highly respected cardiologist shares that: ‘The Lancet Global Burden of Disease Reports that poor diet is responsible for more disease and death than physical inactivity/smoking/alcohol combined’.
‘Life expectancy is regressing in the UK.’ A depressing reality. Dr Malhotra offers some solutions in this interview recorded earlier this year:
An example of exactly what Dr Aseem is talking about: ‘How tobacco giants are bankrolling secret pro-vaping campaign’. A shocker of an article in last week’s The Times UK newspaper.
The World Health Organisation opposes their use, saying they are ‘undoubtedly harmful’ and unproven as a method of giving up cigarettes.
‘New research by the WHO has found that globally a higher proportion of children aged 13 to 15 had tried vapes than among adults.’ These are our children, that we should be protecting…
Danish start up Too Good To Go was founded in Copenhagen 8 years ago. A really positive article was in the FT last month sharing how they’re tackling food waste. Look at this shocker:
December; soup season round here. I tapped in ‘butternut squash’ into our website’s search function and it brought up this fave from an old blog: Spicy Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato and Coconut Soup from Rebel Recipes. Oldie, but goodie…
Made this from from The Pesky Vegan this week too – major hit round here: Scottish Barley Soup
Dr Connealy features on our cancer resource. She was sharing some more scary stats on Instagram last week – and offering some solutions too:
Rosie Made a Thing has a point, there aren’t many vitamins in mulled wine, but here’s a ‘healthier’ version that we enjoyed last weekend after some carol singing:
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