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Olive Oil can Tap Dance!

Time to set the record straight on olive oil, or it won’t be long before we see the title of this thread as the next Daily Mail article! Here is the Daily Mail article from 19 April 2010. Olive oil can now apparently switch off genes and previous articles have told us that olive oil [...]

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Kellogg’s Special K Mini Breaks

I saw a full page advert in a Sunday supplement magazine yesterday for Special K Mini Breaks – Chocolate variety. Described as “Mmmmmmmmmm”; “crunch”; “delish”; “biscuit”‘; “chocolate”; “crispy”; “choccy”; “biscuity”‘; “crunch”; “moreish”; “99 calories a bag”; “crunchy, delicious, biscuity bites”. How to get every word possible to tempt a dieter to eat stuff that they [...]

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The Ultimate Yoghurt Question!

I get many questions about yoghurt and The Harcombe Diet. I’m hoping that this will be the definitive answer to any more yoghurt questions. If it is not answered here, I’ll show you how to do your own research… Q) Should I have Natural Live Yoghurt with a fat meal or a carb meal? A) [...]

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TOTAL Greek Yoghurt – is it OK?

TOTAL Greek Yoghurt is fine as a version of Natural Live Yoghurt. The ‘live’ bit is not very well promoted, but the nutritional information details are reassuring: TOTAL Greek Yoghurt is made from completely natural ingredients. Total Greek Yoghurt is live, pasteurised and contains no artificial additives, preservatives or thickeners. TOTAL has no added sugars [...]

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Which 2 ingredients do UK people eat the most of?

I have been analysing the National Food Survey stats (DEFRA)  for some months. Sadly this stops at the year 2000 – the FSA took over responsibility after this and we haven’t had a survey since. This is a tragic loss of continuous data. However, I have just compared some of the yr 2000 DEFRA figs [...]

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Guideline Daily Amounts – GDA’s

I thought I’d see if I could find a calculator on the internet anywhere to see what my diet would register on the GDA scale. I imagine it will score very badly, because we are supposed to be following the “Eatwell plate” and I think this is the cause of obesity, rather than the basis [...]

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Mince Pies – what’s in them?

I stuck a box of Tesco (Finest) (Mini) Mince Pies in the trolley this week and here is what is in them: Mincemeat (40%), wheat flour, butter (15%), sugar, whey powder, salt, raising agents (sodium phosphate, sodium carbonate).The mincemeat contains: sultanas, sugar, apple, glucose syrup, currants, orange peel, sunflower oil, COURVOISIER VS Cognac (contains colour [...]

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Milk! All about the different options

Milk is a unique and interesting food. Nutritionists often disagree about whether or not humans should drink milk. Here are two facts about milk, to give you the main argument against and for, so that you can decide if it should be on your own menu: 1. Argument against: Strictly speaking, milk is for babies! [...]

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Actimel vs Natural (Live) Yoghurt

Another Danone product: The ingredients in Actimel Original are: Yogurt (Skimmed milk, Skimmed milk concentrate, Yogurt cultures), Water, Skimmed milk, Dextrose, Stabiliser (pectin), L.casei imunitass® cultures, Flavouring, Sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K). The ingredients in Forest Fruits Actimel are: Yogurt (Skimmed milk, cream, skimmed milk powder, yogurt cultures), Skimmed milk, Liquid sugar (sucrose 8.4%), Fruits of [...]

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Activia vs Natural (Live) Yoghurt

The ingredients in Activia ‘natural’ yoghurt are low fat yoghurt with Bifidus ActiRegularis (Registered Trademark) (skimmed milk, skimmed milk powder, cream, milk proteins, yoghurt cultures). The ingredients in the fat free range of Activia (taking the top entry on the web site – blueberry – as an example) are: fat free yoghurt with Bifidus ActiRegularis [...]

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