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As kids we would get whole coconuts from the shop, hammer a hole in two places with a tent peg, pour the water into a glass and drink some before we hammered the coconut to split it open so we could feast on the white flesh. All very exotic in the 1960s.
Now coconut water has gained public interest as a refreshment, especially with the allure of being a natural drink, not a concocted soft drink. ...
They say there was a time last century when we used to eat three meals a day and we should have been thankful for that many because kids were starving in Africa. I suspect they were talking about working adults between 1901 - 1970. I doubt whether kids, teenagers or housewives would have existed on three meals only. If they could sneak a biscuit, leftovers or some bread and dripping they would hav...
What is the perfect diet? If you go by what you read in the media, you might toss up between the Mediterranean diet, the low-carb diet, or the Japanese diet. Now and again you will hear of the hunter-gatherer diet, or cave man diet, touted as the ideal choice as it was the diet for most of human ancestry.
The hunter-gatherer diet should probably be termed the gatherer-hunter diet as our forebears...
Joel, wrote in and asked which of the four macronutrients in food required the most Calories to be digested. The four macronutrients are protein, fat, carbohydrate and alcohol, the only ones that provide Calories in the diet.
His question related to the fact that we burn Calories to digest food, that is, you have to burn some Calories to actually digest and absorb the Calories used by your muscle...
Peter Rogers asked me to write a few thoughts on probiotics. He tried a probiotic supplement for three months and didn't see any benefit. His partner, however, felt an improvement and has stuck with them. You will have seen advertisements for both yogurt with Lactobacillus acidophilis and Bifidobacteria, as well as small bottles of supplemental live bacteria eg Yakult; these are examples of probio...
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