Healthy Food Guide editor Niki Bezzant reviews new products on the supermarket shelves and gives HFG’s verdict on health, taste and value.
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I read in a fashion magazine recently the ‘secrets of super-healthy women’. Great headline, I thought. The trouble was, each of the ‘super healthy’ women had a different set of health secrets, and they seemed to contradict each other.
Healthy Food Guide editor Niki Bezzant reviews new products on the supermarket shelves and gives HFG’s verdict on health, taste and value.
This week’s products:
Healthy Food Guide editor Niki Bezzant reviews new products on the supermarket shelves and gives HFG’s verdict on health, taste and value.
This week’s products:
It’s always exciting to be introduced to new foods, especially when they’re super-healthy, versatile and taste great, too. A ‘new’ category of food that’s become very popular in the last year or so is actually quite ancient.
Healthy Food Guide editor Niki Bezzant reviews new products on the supermarket shelves and gives HFG’s verdict on health, taste and value.
This week’s products:
Healthy Food Guide editor Niki Bezzant reviews new products on the supermarket shelves and gives HFG’s verdict on health, taste and value.
This week’s products:
It’s a basic aspect of human nature, and it drives me a little bit crazy on an almost daily basis. I’m talking about our love of quick fixes, simple solutions, and miracle cures.
It’s at its most evident when it comes to weight loss diets. Almost every week there’s another ‘revolutionary’ new diet that comes across my desk. Most of the time there’s nothing new or revolutionary about these, but it doesn’t stop the book from rocketing to the top of bestseller lists and thousands of us from giving them a try.
What’s the best diet in the world? Is there such a thing? It was not much of a surprise to hear of a new study recently, showing a Mediterranean-style diet is effective in cutting the risk of heart disease.
In the Spanish study with over 7,000 participants, half were instructed to follow a Mediterranean diet including either nuts or extra virgin olive oil, and the rest were given advice on following a standard low-fat diet. Those on the Mediterranean diet had 30 per cent fewer ‘cardiovascular events’ (mainly strokes) compared with people in the control group.
How healthy was the last meal you ate in a restaurant? Without being too unkind to chefs, I bet the chances are you’ll answer “not particularly”. But do restaurant chefs have a responsibility to serve healthy food?
