• Couch Potatoes Rejoice! • The Diet that’s Like A Treadmill on Your Plate • What to eat every week to boost your natural fitness I’ll begin by stating the bleedin’ obvious. I LOVE FOOD. It used to be that I just loved its taste and the pleasure of eating it. And now I love it for that AND the way it heals disease and protects us from all kinds of later-life health problems. It’s why I began writing…
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The surprising reason my builder let me down My gout prejudice shamefully revealed Try these natural strategies to avoid and alleviate excessive uric acid building up in your bloodstream… I’m not much of a handyman. Behind every large picture hung on our wall are about three failed attempts to put in a screw. My few DIY projects, like the shelves I put up in the garage, could be described as “charmingly rustic” or maybe just “BAD”. When…
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What I’m about to share is fascinating and horrifying at the same time… It comes from a Good Life Letter reader, who read one of my emails about Ultra Processed Food (handily abbreviated to ‘UPF’). They sent me a link to a fascinating article by food writer Chris Van Tulleken, in which he gave up all UPFs for a month and diarised what happened. Now, if you missed my recent letters on this subject, the gist of the matter is…
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Are you sitting comfortably? Feeling relaxed? If so, good. Because it might help you live longer. That’s according to a new study in the US, which looked at biological ageing in people before and after surgery. The stress of the upcoming surgery vastly accelerated their measurable biological age. But this ageing was REVERSED in the recovery process. They have tried similar experiments on mice too and found that exposure to stress aged them rapidly, while stress reduction did the opposite….
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• Is this the worst ever breakfast cereal? • The 2 ingredients that make sugar more addictive • The food type that causes chronic disease I hate to do the ‘when I were a lad’ stuff. My kids cringe whenever I started talking about the old days. And fair enough! I’m not a fan of phoney nostalgia, and I try not to see the past with rose tinted glasses. Take food, for instance. There are so many delicious, exciting foods…
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• England have announced a new law for gene-edited food • The dark and worrying side of this latest development • Why it could make your fruit and veg less healthy (and worse)… England have changed its laws to allow gene-edited food to be developed and sold! The government claims this will create more jobs and improve food production. But environmental concerns are keeping this from being allowed in other parts of the UK like Wales and Scotland. You might…
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