Very Healthy Nettle Soup!

Christmas Mulled Wine

Pregnancy morning sickness

The Milk Myth

Great Britain and Ireland represented 20% of the EU population 10 years ago, yet they were consuming 40% of its dairy products, with an average weekly intake of 4 pints of milk.  Milk in Great Britain and Ireland is a mainstay of our diets.  We have been taught from a young age that it is a wonder food, fantastic for our teeth and bones, but is this really true?

The Menopause

Making Yoghurt at Home

Making your own yoghurt couldn’t be easier.  You can even exchange the cow’s milk for goat’s or sheep’s milk and you will get goat’s or sheep’s yoghurt!

Lettuce on the windowsil

There’s nothing more rewarding than growing your own food.  And there’s very little that’s more nutritional to buy than to grow yourself.  Nutrients in food are at their highest when the food was growing one minute and on your plate the next!

Jerusalem Artichokes and the bowel system!

Irradiation of foods

In many countries food irradiation is now being used during food production.  It keeps food fresh longer by inhibiting the sprouting of vegetables (like onions and potatoes), slowing down fruit ripening, killing moulds and insects, and decreasing the incidence of food poisoning (like Salmonella).  It is also a “clever” way to use nuclear waste but leaves no radiation in the food itself.

Iron

People seem to be obsessed with iron.  If they are tired and pale, a deficiency in iron, the mineral responsible for the bright red colour of our blood, is presumed the culprit.  Iron supplements are then popped open and swallowed, but many don’t realise that too much iron isn’t necessarily a good thing and many iron supplements are ineffective due to what ‘form’ they are in.