Friends influence your weight gain more than siblings or partners says a new report from the New England Journal of Medicine. Medical sociologists from Harvard studied a network of more than 12,000 people for 32 years and found that …
97 %: That’s how many health giving flavonoids there are in organic tomatoes compared to non-organic. A 10 year study at the University of California, USA, found levels were far higher in pesticide- free tomatoes. Getting plenty of flavonoids is linked to reduced rates of dementia and cancer.
First we are told that fats are unhealthy and then carbohydrates and sugar and salt. Now there is mercury in fish to worry about, hormones in dairy, additives in children’s snacks and even spinach has been linked to bacterial outbreaks. But not to worry you can take the stress out of healthy eating by making a few changes to the way you shop and cook.
Fish: Mercury is deposited into the oceans and streams by coal burning plants where it can convert to a more toxic form, methylmercury which makes its way into the food chain and is most prevalent in …