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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 our water filter episode and how Mike’s hand was having problems healing. He’s been back…
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 flour in it! A couple of weeks ago I accompanied my father back to his…
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 should be looking at the ingredients of the processed food we eat! [It should be…
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 1 or lower. The reason appears to be that we’re eating far too much omega-6….
I think only Australians of a certain age will understand the title of this week’s blog! So sorry about that to all you others… We had a family dinner last night and, as seems to be the case for all dinner parties, the talk turned to health and saturated fat. And, as usual, my views…
Doctor-2 The visit with my father to his cardiologist went well in that he agreed for my father to come off Lipitor immediately. The condition is that he goes back to see him again in one month’s time to tell him how he feels. The doctor agreed that cholesterol was not the problem and when…
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