If your flour comes from a windmill is it still an unhealthy processed food?

How cool are windmills though? Apparently the history of windmills goes all the way back to sometime around AD 650 or so. They use 'em to mill grain, if you didn't know. Grind grain up between massive stones to make flour, which you could then make bread out of. I've been...

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Dieting: From One Extreme To Another

I had a bit of an idea the other day about comparing what is “recommended” vs what is “good enough to get the job done” in terms of approaches and adherence to dieting. What is recommended varies wildly from one source to another. What probably should be recommended is something...

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When fkn idiots tell you "there is no reason to consume carbohydrates"...

Let me tell you something else. This "low carb high fat" nonsense is all over the news down here again. People who should know better, talking complete bollocks about there being "no requirement" or "no need" to consume carbohydrates, or that they are "not essential" or...

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Gabrielle Maston: I Quit Sugar – Book Review

Gabrielle Maston: I Quit Sugar – Book Review: One fine sun shining morning a few weeks ago a client of mine, who works in the publishing business  handed me over the new book by Sarah Wilson titled ‘I quit sugar’. My initial reaction was: ‘what right does a popular journalist/editor have to write about nutrition and diets? Clearly under qualified...

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Cereal vs confectionary? Really?

Click for the readable (larger) version. Suffice to say they elected not to approve my comment. I'm going to show you a comment I posted on an article last night, talking about breakfast cereals. Now, we're not talking the sort of cereals you might be thinking about here,...

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