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Raw & Tasty Tacos, Photo by Johan Everstijn By Laura Weldon Ever heard the word “locavore?” This was the New American Dictionary word of the year for 2007. A locavore is a person who chooses to eat food that has been grown and produced locally. Why go to all that trouble? Save energy and reduce your carbon footprint Food [...] by Jerome Burne, as featured in ‘Food Matters’ What’s the best way of telling if you are at a raised risk of heart disease? Most people would probably say their cholesterol level, because too much can block your arteries. That’s why the NHS spends more than £1/2 billion a year on statins to treat [...] Sprouting takes a nut or seed that is dormant and brings it to life. You can watch as a food that has been sitting in a bag on a shelf for months begins to grow a little sprout and transforms. One of the easiest foods to sprout is buckwheat. Buckwheat becomes packed with live enzymes [...] Over a period of months or years, our food is shaped by the sun, wind and precipitation. Then as soon as we eat a meal, our intestines go about the arduous task of breaking it down so everything in it can be absorbed by our bodies. They sort out which components are allowed to stay [...] The popular herbal extract St. John’s wort is more effective at treating the symptoms of depression than any antidepressant drug, and has fewer side effects, researchers from the Centre for Complementary Medicine in Munich have concluded. “Overall, the St John’s Wort extracts tested in the trials were superior to placebo, similarly effective as standard anti-depressants, [...]
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