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Osso Buco Ragù

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This traditional Italian dish includes meat with marrow bones is super delicious and dead easy. Veal and pork version included.
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Reviews

Knepp Wild Range Meat review ★★★★★

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Local Food

Local ORGANIC Farm Shops During COVID-19 Lockdown

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Bad Medicine, In the News

Coronavirus hysteria – is the cure worse than the disease?

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Nutrition, Phototherapy & Vitamin D

5 nutrients that might help your body fight off coronavirus

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Recipes

Grain-Free Wholemeal Keto Rolls

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Nutrition, WSHoMSoc

Why did it take so long to crack scurvy?

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Wilding by Isabella Tree — Book Review

Corruption of medical research in the words of the world’s top journal editors

Does the discovery of 170 000-year-old roast veggies “Kill the paleo diet?”

Our top reads of 2019

Pork Spare Ribs with Coleslaw Featured Image

Quick Spare Ribs and Coleslaw

Dr Jason Fung on the corruption in medical science

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10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine

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10 Reasons To Supplement With Glycine

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The Case for Sustainable Meat

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Jordan Peterson on Diet and Health 2

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Carbohydrates, not animal fats, linked to heart disease across 42 European countries

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Thinking of going vegan or avoiding red meat? Read this first…

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About this blog

My blog was created to support the patients who come to see me at Rosemary Cottage Clinic, but many of the articles have gained world wide attention, with over 40,000 visitors per year. Explore this site to find:

  • 100+ scientifically-backed articles
  • 60+ recipes for specific diets
  • 100+ interesting posts on Paleo, Keto, Carnivore and Gluten-Free diets

Evolution and Diet

Evolution, Nutrition

How can bitter foods be good for us when they taste so bad? – Resolving the paradox

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Keir Watson presents his carefully argued hypothesis based on evolutionary considerations of hunter-gatherer feast-famine cycles,…

Paleo Diet

Man the Hunter

Afifah Hamilton
About 2 million year’s ago the human brain began an exponential growth in size, unparalleled…

Why were ancient teeth healthier than ours?

Keir Watson
Unpicking the complexities of how human oral health changed with the advent of agriculture.

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Endurance Running and Superior Throwing Provide Evidence of Man’s Evolutionary Diet

Man the Hunter

Milk & Alcohol – was the good Doctor on to something?

Why were ancient teeth healthier than ours?

Did cooked tubers drive human evolution?

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Videos

Title image - How Meat Heals with caveman

How can a meat-only diet reverse chronic disease? Five Doctors share their insights

Autumn Seminar 2014 (post 2) – Dr Malcolm Kendrick video pt1 Ten Key Contradictions

Mob Grazing Regenerates Soil and Captures Carbon [VIDEO]

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The Gluten Iceberg…

because there is so much more…

…just under the surface

Why no one should eat grains. Part 1 – The tip of the Iceberg

Familiarise yourself with the research around coeliac disease and you will understand why eating gluten…

Why no one should eat grains. Part 2 – The definitive guide to Non Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity

A detailed examination of the current science on this recently recognised gluten pathology. Includes new…

Why no one should eat grains. Part 3: Ten more reasons to avoid wheat

Beyond coeliac disease and NCGS – we look at the many ways that wheat can…

Why no one should eat grains. Part 4: whole grains – the whole truth

Grains dominate the world food supply, but have many negative health consequences independent of gluten…

Latest Gluten Posts

Gluten

Wheat Toxicity: A Quick Update

Afifah Hamilton
Gluten

What's Behind the Rise in Gluten Toxicity? Hypothesis 2 – Food Glues

Keir Watson

More Gluten Posts

New Study Vindicates William Davis: Modern Wheat is more Toxic than Ancient Varieties

Gluten-Free Diet effective in Tourettes

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RECIPES

My recipes are designed to help people who are on a restricted diet for health reasons.

I have included plenty of recipes for breakfasts, lunches and dinners, along with ideas for snacks, deserts and cakes: all without the use of grains in any form. Many include options for goat or sheep dairy, or dairy-free.

Options for Christmas and other celebrations will help you stay on track.

✓ Gluten-free and Grain-free
✓ Dairy-free versions
✓ Paleo and Carnivore
✓ True Ketogenic recipes
✓ Low-Carb, Low-Sugar, Zero-Carb

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Example Recipes

Stuffed (Farmed) Sea Bass

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Rustic Cold Smoked Salami – review ★★★★☆

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Real mince meat pies

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Gluten-Free Green Pea Pasta – Review ★★★★☆

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Curly kale crisps

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My Grain-Free Christmas Dinner

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Reviews

Rustic Cold Smoked Salami – review ★★★★☆

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Knepp book launch party plus campsite photo review

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A Celebration of Eggs

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Bad Medicine

Corruption of medical research in the words of the world’s top journal editors

Coronavirus hysteria – is the cure worse than the disease?

Dr Jason Fung on the corruption in medical science

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Food and the Environment

A pretty amazing food just got a whole lot prettier

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Wow! Our local organic egg farm has just started offering these beautiful multi-coloured hens eggs!

Wilding by Isabella Tree — Book Review

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The United Nations University has published one of our blog posts!

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Very Slow Cooked Re-wilded Pasture-Fed Longhorn Beef Shin

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Health Hack – Infographics

Health Hack #3: Muesli that's worth eating

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Health Hack #1: An alternative to fizzy drinks

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Health Hack #6: Paleo Christmas Hacks

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Herbal Medicine Articles

Neanderthal Herbal Medicine

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Recent evidence has uncovered the use of herbal medicines amongst our closest evolutionary cousin. We…
Herbal medicine

Echinacea

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Herbal medicine

Aloe vera plants – why every home should have one

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Evolution, Herbal medicine

Neanderthal Herbal Medicine

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Red Light Phototherapy

Red light phototherapy (1/3): The Skin

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Red light phototherapy (2/3): Brain, Muscles and Eyes

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Stonehenge with sunrise

Red light phototherapy (3/3): Hair regrowth, Pain reduction, Wound healing and Practical applications

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Sunlight and Vitamin D

Human photosynthesis – beyond vitamin-D

Animal products that protect you from UV damage

Why April 15th is D-Day in the south of England

More posts about Phototherapy, sunlight and Vitamin D

20 Diet Memes to Rate and Share

Vegetarian and Veganism

UK Vegetarians Don't Live Longer – VIDEO

Even in the land of barbies and beer vegetarians DON'T live longer

UK vegetarians DON’T live longer than meat eaters study finds

Veganism, extremism and domestic terrorism

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Behind veganism is an ideological movement linked to extremism, violence and terrorism. We take a…
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West Sussex History of Medicine Lectures

Why did it take so long to crack scurvy?

Captain Cook impressed the Royal Society with his successful use of saurkraut to ward off…

Great Losses of the Great War

During the First World War, the British Officer Class suffered the heaviest losses. Mr John…

The Contagious Diseases Acts 1864 and The History of Spermatorrhoea

Comments on two lectures: (1) The Contagious Diseases Acts (2) The History of Spermatorrhoea —…
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Coffee

Coffee – its light and dark side

March News Round-Up

5 everyday ancestral foods with proven health benefits

Fake News Awards

Gluten-free diet MAY be unhealthy and MAY increase risk of heart attack (or not)

Fake News #2 – Best diets for 2018 awards

2019 The Year Vegan Pseudo-Science goes Mainstream?

Folate

Fake News #1 – Low carb diets linked to risk of birth defects

Gluten and Schizophrenia – does it all start in the womb?

Curly kale crisps

DHA, EPA, Fish Oils

Improve Your Omega-6 to Omega-3 Balance

Gluten and Schizophrenia – does it all start in the womb?

August News Round-Up

Cholesterol

Dr Malcolm Kendrick – Autumn Seminar – Tickets now available

Cholesterol and CVD – putting the risks into perspective

"Always get a copy of your blood test results"

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