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

October 18, 2019May 12, 2017 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 5 min Fake news; alternative facts; plus a dose of healthy skepticism. We take a look behind the recent gluten headlines.

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Categories In the News Tags Article, fake news, Gluten, gluten-free diet, heart disease, news headlines, paleo diet, real food, Walter Willett

Anyone for Paleo Pud? (Berry nice thank you!)

June 9, 2019January 21, 2014 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 3 min Of all the fruits we eat, berries are the closest to their wild counterparts. Here’s a great way to serve them.

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Categories Recipes Tags berries, black berries, breakfasts, clotted cream, desserts, fructose, fruit, grow your own, ketogenic, passion fruit, pomegranate, real food

Real mince meat pies

June 9, 2019December 22, 2015 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 5 min The real deal. An update on the traditional 17th century minced pie, with real minced beef (!) in a chestnut and almond shortbread case.

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Categories Recipes Tags cakes, chestnut flour, Christmas, Christmas food, gluten free, ground almonds, low carb deserts, minced beef, real food, Samuel Pepys, traditional English food

Why home-grown food is up to ten times better than arable crops

June 8, 2019February 20, 2015 by Keir Watson

Read Time: 6 min Study shows that UK allotments and gardens are more productive and fertile than farmland.

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Categories Food & Environment Tags allotments, arable farming, Article, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, crop production, Dig for Victory, farming, homegrown food, pasture, real food, soil carbon, soil health, vegetable garden

Dietary guidelines are a disaster: here's ten principles to fix them

January 20, 2018 by Keir Watson

Read Time: 14 min Nutritional research is increasingly challenging Government Guidelines on what constitutes a healthy diet. We present 10 important evidence based principles that get to the heart of the problem.

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Categories Nutrition Tags Article, dietary guidelines, fish, junk food, Mediterranean diet, Obesity, paleo diet, real food, risk vs benefit, traditional cooking

August News Round-Up

August 31, 2015 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 6 min Gluten-free junk food on NHS; Jamie Oliver calls for sugar tax; Butter better than margarine; Fish oils for schizophrenia; Vit-D and MS

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Categories In the News Tags Article, butter, elephants, fish oils, gluten free, Jamie Oliver, junk food, maternal iodine, multiple sclerosis, paleo diet, real food, saturated fat, schizophrenia, soyoil, sugar tax, tubers, vitamin D

A pretty amazing food just got a whole lot prettier

December 7, 2014 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: < 1 min Wow! Our local organic egg farm has just started offering these beautiful multi-coloured hens eggs!

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Categories Food & Environment Tags egg shell colours, eggs, hen's eggs, in-brief, natural beauty, organic egg farm, real food

Tickets now on sale!

August 12, 2013 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: < 1 min An unmissable evening of talks and presentations by leading authors and permaculture pioneers explaining how pasture can Save Farming * Solve Global Warming * Feed the World   …

Read moreTickets now on sale!

Categories Event, Food & Health Group Tags Allan Savory, biodiversity, Charles Burrell, farming, food, Graham Harvey, grass-fed, health, Knepp, Lierre Keith, pasture, re-wilding, real food, seminar, talks

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