Low-cal sweeteners: good or bad?

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Low calorie sweeteners (LCS), they are already the sweetness in our diet or zero drinks, and are starting to make an appearance is reduced sugar drinks such as Coke Life. But can they really help us to lose weight as part of a calorie controlled diet as written at the…

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Daily avocado to keep LDL low

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Fans of guacamole rejoice! Eating an avocado a day could help to lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol. Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association the paper describes how when people were fed either a low fat diet with no avocado, a medium fat diet with no avocado or…

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Sugar me timbers…

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…Eating a diet that contains high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) equivalent to the added sugar we can have in our diet is bad news for fertility and life expectancy, in female mice at least.

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Fishy eggs?

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Another omega 3 fatty acid blog for you to start off the new year. Researchers have been giving hens supplements of fish oil, chia seeds and linseed seed (or flax for our friends across the pond) to try and increase the omega 3 fatty acid levels in the eggs, and…

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Feed the Weed to Pigs

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Duck weed, any pond owner is probably very familiar with the stuff. It is a free floating plant that tries to exclude any light from getting into your pond by blanketing the entire surface.

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