Just Blown Away!
My original idea with this entry had been to expand from the FSA report comment from my last blog into the benefits of organic farming for developing countries and then explaining the philosophy of biodynamic farming. But I got sidetracked…
Report Retort!
The FSA (Food Standard Agency) released a report last week, the basis of which was to compare the nutritional benefits of organic food compared to conventional food. The conclusion of the report was that there was little difference in nutritional…
Healing Powers
I must apologise for not writing for over a month while I was back in the UK – it was a hectic time in England. I’m back in Perth, Australia and ready to write again! In April I wrote about…
This and that…
I’m now back in the UK for a few weeks. I was in the supermarket yesterday and decided to look at bread and ingredients. I was in shock – every loaf of white bread (about 12 different varieties) had soy…
So, now to Soy
So it seems that we’re eating too much omega-6 and the oils with the highest omega-6 ratios are corn, soy and sunflower oils. This means we need to cut down on the quantity of these oils we consume so we…
Not too much, not too little, but just right…
So our omega-6:omega-3 ratios are out of balance. Modern Western diets typically have ratios of omega−6 to omega−3 in excess of 10 to 1, some as high as 30 to 1. The optimal ratio is thought to be 4 to…