Humans have enjoyed tea and coffee for quite some time. Coffee was being drunk in Europe in the mid-17th century, while tea was supposedly consumed by the Chinese 4500 years ago, although this strongly disputed as the first mention of tea in a Chinese text was only 2000 years ago. Tea arrived in Europe around the same time as coffee. A fascinating history of both beverages can be found in Tom Stan...
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A Philosophy of Eating
5th Aug 2013 10:00 am
My favorite Wellness adviser, Don Ardell, and I exchange emails. In the main we agree and sometimes disagree, if only because continuous agreement is not that adventurous. Don is a vegan. I'm a flexitarian. Don avoids cheese. I think a life without a good camembert is one greatly diminished. All the same, we kind of agree on a philosophy of eating. Briefly, here is my view. Don will comment at the...
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Vitamin C
8th Jul 2013 10:00 am
Vitamin C became famous the moment that Linus Pauling (pictured), a US professor of chemistry, said he thought that vitamin C could reduce the risk of the common cold. By this time, in the early 1970s, he had already pocketed two Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace. He could have got a third when he was working hard to determine the structure of DNA before Watson and Crick beat him to it. So, Paul...
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Food and gout: a brief update
17th Jun 2013 10:00 am
Recently I had to review the dietary treatment of gout for a client. Gout is a common form of arthritis, yet there is very little research on the role of food despite textbooks and the web being full of dietary advice and presumptions.
What is gout?
Gout is characterised by high levels of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricaemia), and is more likely to occur in men than in women. The high levels ...
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Cuppa Tea
14th Jan 2013 10:00 am
I'm a big fan of black tea due to my English heritage, where you weren't supposed to leave the breakfast table if there was still tea in the pot. For one of my badges in Cubs I had to prove at the age of seven that I could brew the perfect cup of tea: pre-warm the pot, add x teaspoons of leaves (x = one teaspoon per person + one for the pot), add boiling water, stir, leave to brew for five minutes...
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