Yes, our old friend, the suped up broccoli with 2-3 times the level of the phytonutrient glucoraphanin compared to normal broccoli is back in the news again.
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Yes, good news to all you fellow cross fitters, gym goers or runners who also like to indulge in fast food. It seems that eating fast food after exercise has the same effect on your glycogen levels as isoenergetic sport supplements.
Staying on the subject of type II diabetes, (if you don’t know what I am talking about check out the last blog) it would seem that milk consumption and especially fermented milk (predominantly cheese and yogurt), can reduce your chances of type II diabetes.
Is there a link? And if so is it good or bad? Published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers from Finland claim that eating eggs can reduce your chance of developing type II diabetes.
We all know that fruit and vegetables are good for you, but if you are trying to father a child you may want to think organic or avoid certain ones.
…Inflamed in the brain! Tip of the hat to Cypress Hill aside, this blog comes back to the effect our diet can have on the contents of our gut microbiome and the effect this can exert on our bodies.
Yep, strange as it sounds, it seems that when rice is boiled in water with a bit of coconut oil added and then cooled in the fridge for half a day it makes the starch less digestible and therefore delivers fewer calories.
Interesting news published in the Journal BMC Medicine this week. We have
If you want to get the most carotenes out of your eggs then scrambled certainly seems not the way to do it. And why would you care? Well, the carotenes in eggs help protect against age related eye sight deterioration.
Another week and another publication about coffee consumption. This one published ahead of print on the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition website gives a familiar story, drinking coffee seems to be inversely related with chance of death.