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Spices help us reduce the amount of sugar and salt from our diet. To reduce the amount of salt in your cooking, use spices that have a slightly sharp taste - like ginger, onion, garlic and basil. To keep your palate happy, use spices that…
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One of the most versatile vegetables on the planet, cauliflower provides a significant amount of antioxidants, beneficial for reducing inflammation. It is rich in a compound called sulforaphane. Sulforaphane reduces the inflammatory damage…
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It’s best to feed adult dogs twice a day. Puppies, until they are six months old, usually eat three times a day. Avoid feeding adult dogs only once a day or they remain hungry and might raid your garbage bin for scraps, steal from your…
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Introduce your kids to more and more healthful ingredients, but do it gradually. Think of all that is natural, interesting, nutritious and helps create variety. Start adding flours like ragi, emmer wheat, quinoa, buckwheat and others,…
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Have you had a pear today? A study, published in the journal ‘Nutrition’, says that women who ate three pears a day consumed fewer total daily calories and lost more weight than those who didn’t. Pears are rich in fibre - just one pear…
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This Thai recipe is great for using up a selection of vegetables. It’s a mild to medium- flavoured curry so should be a favourite with all the family. Ingredients 1 tbsp sunflower or vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 3cm piece of…
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This recipe is suitable for vegans. If you prefer, you can use a small sliced onion instead of the leek. It’s great as a quick fuel food after a run or a jog. Ingredients 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1 leek, trimmed and sliced 1…
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Use your time and your freezer wisely. When you cook once, make it last longer by preparing enough for several other meals. Freeze it and have a ready-made healthy treat for the next time you are simply too tired or busy to cook.
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Spinach packs a powerful anti-inflammatory punch. This is one superfood that we should all be eating more often. In fact, it is one of the best known of all the anti-inflammatory superfoods. It contains nutrients that reduce inflammation.…
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Dog and cat owners buy weight-control diets for their overweight pets but are confused by the calorie density, recommended intake, and wide range cost of low-calorie pet foods. A study by the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts…
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