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Healthy Convenience Foods

Life is so “fast-paced” these days that it’s difficult to avoid the temptation of the “ready-meal”, however much we know we really shouldn’t. Wouldn’t it be great if there were healthy ready-meals foods? The great news is, there are!

Grant Recipient Stevan Taylor, of The Foodamentalists

I “bumped into” Steve the other day in an on-line business networking site. He was explaining that he hadn’t been online a lot because he’d been having a major push … Continue Reading

The other day, it was my turn to prepare dinner, so I asked my wife to go over to the local market and buy some organic vegetables.

She came back rather upset. When I asked her what was wrong, she said, “I don’t think I like that produce guy. I went and looked around for your organic vegetables and I couldn’t find any. So I asked him where the organic vegetables were.”

“He didn’t know what I was talking about, so I said, ‘These vegetables are for … Continue Reading

If you’ve ever wondered about the nutritional content of food, your problems are at an end, because here’s WolframAlpha, a computational knowledge engine!

Whatever is that, I hear you cry.

Quite straight-forward,  Wolfram|Alpha is an early stage of a long-term project that aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.

The way it works is that you type in a question, or a calculation you need to make, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

The link I’m sending you to is based on … Continue Reading

We hear that we must eat five (or even ten – depending on who you listen to) portions of fruit and veg a day. But what is a portion?

Fruit

A portion is 80 grams or 3.2 ounces. Example portions from a British Dietetic Association handout:

• Large slice of melon or pineapple
• Medium-sized apple, pear, orange
• Two plums or satsumas
• Cup of grapes or berries
• 2-3 tablespoons fruit salad or canned fruit
• One 150ml glass of fruit juice
• Two tablespoons vegetables – raw, cooked, canned or fresh
• … Continue Reading
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Mushrooms Could Reduce Breast Cancer Risk by 64%

A study conducted jointly by the University of Western Australia and the Zhejiang University in China has found that eating mushrooms and drinking green tea could help protect against breast cancer.

The research team examined the mushroom and tea consumption of more than 2,000 women aged from 20 to 87 in relatively affluent south-east China. Half the women had confirmed breast cancer, and the others were healthy women recruited from outpatient clinics.

It was found that the the combination of … Continue Reading