References: http://www.westonaprice.org/, http://www.spacedoc.net/, Dr Malcolm Kendrick The statins (or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) are a class of drugs that lower cholesterol levels. The first results can be seen after one week of use and the effect is maximal after four to six weeks. Different statins: Lovastatin Fluvastatin Pravastatin Simvastatin – Zocor – available over the counter…
I’m so pleased to announce that spreadable 100% grass-fed dairy butter is back on the menu! After Kerrygold changed their spreadable butter recipe by adding oil (see my blog – Spreading the Word – or not!) they have just brought back a milk only spreadable butter. Hurray! Only now it’s in a new form –…
That old saying – we are what we eat – keeps coming up again and again. This time I spotted an article (Sunday Times, 11 Sep 11 – Eat yourself happy with mood food) reporting on how micronutrients such as vitamins and trace minerals in the foods we eat can quickly affect our concentration, memory…
One question I keep being asked is ‘how much salt can we eat?’ Firstly it’s probably useful to know that our bodies do need salt to function properly and our own, Dr Claire Maguire has answered most of this question in her Dear Doctor question (reproduced below): “Don’t be confused as in my heart of…
I have been lazy recently and buying mayonnaise from my local supermarket. To my credit it was organic mayonnaise, however it is still made with sunflower oil. But now the shop has stopped stocking it, so I was looking at the ingredients of the other brands on the shelf. Actually there is really only one…
If you clicked on the BBC website this week, you’d have seen an article called ‘‘Good fat’ cuts heart risk by a fifth, study shows’ and if you read it you’ll be led to believe that by increasing your consumption of polyunsaturated fat (PUFA) there would be fall in heart disease by 10%. What the…