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- Whole apples, smoothie, or juice: Effects on blood glucose and insulin
- Brazil nuts and the variation in their selenium content
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Category Archives: Research
Whole apples, smoothie, or juice: Effects on blood glucose and insulin
The varying health effects of eating fruit, as compared to drinking juice or smoothies, are often discussed. Curiously though little actual scientific research is directly cited showing the metabolic effects of eating fruit or drinking juice. This strange absence of … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Nutrition, Research
Tagged apple, bloodsugar, insulin, juice, Research
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Bone Broth, Gelatine, Oxalate, and Kidney Stones
Bone broth, also known as stock, is recently back in fashion with many purported health benefits. I will admit my own bias in being rather a fan of some good bone broth and suspect it is a beneficial component of … Continue reading
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Tagged bone broth, collagen, gelatine, hy, kidney stones, oxalate
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Himalayan Rock Salt
Photo credit: julajp. A relatively recent addition to our British shops, and once restricted to health food shops, it now seems that pink Himalayan salt can be found almost everywhere even appearing in major supermarkets. A quick browse of the … Continue reading
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Tagged himalayan, himalayanpinksalt, himalayanrocksalt, minerals, Nutrition, pinksalt, rocksalt, salt, seasalt, sodium
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Brazil nuts and the variation in their selenium content
As the nights draw in and Christmas approaches here in Scotland bags of unshelled nuts start to appear in my local supermarket, as it is something of a tradition to have a bowl of unshelled nuts around the house at … Continue reading
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