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 mentioned ‘provenance’ in my very first blog entry, but I’ve not discussed it since, yet it is so important. Why now? What does it mean? Firstly what it means – according to Wikipedia, the definition is: Provenance, from the French provenir, “to come from”, means the origin, or the source, of something, or the…
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…
There was another reason why we got interested in health issues. Another very personal reason… A couple of years ago my family (mother and brothers) had been concerned that my father was having problems with his memory. They had him take a dementia test which he passed, so apparently he wasn’t getting Alzheimer’s. About a…
I finally got around to reading the Sunday paper today and a small article on an inside page just caught my eye. What it says is that “researchers from Nottingham University found that women who exercised after a low GI breakfast burnt more fat than those who had a high GI meal. Low GI foods…
We had the plumber here last week for a whole day and a half. No, we didn’t have a leak. We were getting our water filters fitted. We’ve had 2 filters installed – a whole house system and an under-counter reverse osmosis filter system. Why? To remove the chlorine and the fluoride from our house water. Why?…