I am just reading yet another book, this one is very interesting, titled “The Changing Mind” by Daniel Levitin – A neuroscientists guide to aging well. I would like to quote a paragraph – hopefully Daniel won’t mind as I’m…
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Coca Cola Life
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Coca Cola Life is using a new plant extract called Stevia, which is a great idea. Stevia is 100 times sweeter than sugar but doesn’t contain any calories. The company that provides most of the worlds Stevia is called PureCircle.…
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Breakfast High in Protein linked to Weight Loss, Study Finds
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Food high in whey protein kept study participants fuller for longer. I personally wouldn’t bother with powder based whey protein because its expensive, but certainly fish or eggs for breakfast, or occasionally porridge helped me loose 3 stone in about…
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Coca Cola Life and Stevia
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Coca Cola Life is zero sugar, it has a sweetener called Stevia in it, which is natural plant based with zero calories and 200 times sweeter than sugar, so only a small amount has to be added relatively. I haven’t…
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Food for Thinking is Back!
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After some time away from this blog I have decided to bring it back, moving away from the blogger platform and onto WordPress. I am trying to collect information about subjects that interest me, and will be expanding this blog…
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Step-Daughter Loses More
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The lose £5 per pound lost (and another £5 if you keep it off for 6 months) has now cost me £700. She has now gone from a size 16-18 to a size 6-8, all by removing excess sugar from…
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BBC TV: Horizon: Sugar vs Fat
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I watched BBC TVs Horizon, Sugar vs Fat last night. It took two identical twins, doctors Chris van Tulleken and Xand van Tulleken and asked one to eat an extreme sugar diet and the other an extreme fat diet for…
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Step-daughter loses Two Stone!
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During the summer I explained my weight loss to my step daughter and how I achieved it. I explained low sugar may help her control her appetite and how eating sugar made me hungry. I offered her £5 for every…
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Nigel and Adams Farm Kitchen
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BBC1 today at 8pm for four weeks. What a nice surprise, this programme is right up my street. How to eat healthy foods at reasonable prices, and an interesting watch, similar in format to Country File, watching food from the…
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Losing Weight from 17.5 to 16 stone
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Without wanting to bore readers with my life story, let me just say that after cutting out cans of coke and some sugars (because these made me hungry, or at the very least less full), I did the following: Cut…