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Watercress cures cancer, baldness and dull salads

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , , , , , on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’m in love with watercress at the moment and not just because my iphone app seasons says it is in season locally.  Watercress tastes delicious and peppery, has many medicinal properties (from cancer to baldness cures), speeds up metabolisms, is a diuretic, and helps pick up your energy if you’re feeling tired. Gram for gram, [...]

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Hamburgers and fried chicken are in my culture. Fruit and vegetables are out.

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , , , , , on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

1. Taste. 2. Price. 3. Convenience…1,204,895. Health. According to the recent newsletter from Food and Drink Europe, a  survey of 200 Spanish consumers, published in Journal of Sensory Studies, showed that health and weight loss barely make our list of priorities when choosing what food to buy.  Pretty obvious results but as we dig deeper in the newsletter [...]

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‘Eat less red meat’, say experts and every newspaper in the UK. ‘Duh!’ say every vegan, vegetarian and raw foodist.

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , , , , on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today was a good day for vegans, vegtarians, raw foodists and even raw food hypocrites like me.  Every Sunday newspaper in the UK has reported on the ‘advice’ due to be released by The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) recommending that we eat less meat.  While the equivalent of three rashers of bacon a [...]

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Tesco join the raw food revolution

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My local Tesco on Portobello Rd has just been renovated. They’ve done a new paint job and added some diy cashier points but the real news is that they’ve swapped the cakes and crisps that used to be at the front entrance for rows of fresh fruit and vegies. While they haven’t exactly sent out a [...]

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Dr Carrot is back

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

It seems carrots are the ‘it’ vegetable at the moment especially since the British Carrot Growers Association (BGCA) has re-launched the Ministry of Food’s wartime ‘Dr Carrot’ campaign this week.  ‘Functional foods’ or foods with added nutritional benefit such as Vitamin Water or Yakult, are the fastest growing area in food manufacturing and they make my [...]

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Carrots are sexy say researchers

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Being the very fair skinned child in a family of olive skinned naturally tanned siblings and parents, I have always fantasised about waking up one day with a tan.  I did try fake tan once – but I looked more like an oompa loompa at Madame Tussauds than an actual person. Well – according to [...]

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Great Swapathon is a big step forward for the obese

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , , , , , on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve read conflicting views of the Department of Health’s recently launched Change for Life Great Swapathon. A mouthful in itself, the idea is that the British government, with the help of the world’s biggest food businesses (Asda, Birds Eye, JJB Sports, Nestle, Mars, Unilever, Warburtons and Weight Watchers), The Sun and News of the World, [...]

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Gillian McKeith is turning people against healthy eating

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Here in the UK we have a reality TV show currently on air called I’m A Celebrity, Get me Out of Here. The point of the show is to give the British public the power to humiliate D-list celebrities by putting them in hideous situations where they are forced, for example, to eat bugs, beetles, [...]

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Cilantro pesto cures muscle aches and hair loss says my cousin Meg

Posted in Raw food news, Raw recipes, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Well – actually my lovely cousin Meg just passed on this really interesting info about the healing powers of cilantro AKA coriander. I eat a lot of coriander so am excited to hear that not only does it add essential flavour to some of my ‘dry’ raw food concoctions but it is clears my body of [...]

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Is Bill Clinton a raw foodie?

Posted in Raw food news, tagged , , , , on October 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve always liked Bill Clinton, aside from the Monica-cigargate episode of course, but now he really rises to the top of my esteem. By talking openly about how and why he is embracing a near vegan diet, he is making highly nutritious food mainstream and acceptable and that is frankly amazing for the nutritional health [...]

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