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Just Blown Away!

By Andrea Maguire | 12 Sep 2009
Wind

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…

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Report Retort!

By Andrea Maguire | 9 Aug 2009
Files

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…

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Healing Powers

By Andrea Maguire | 27 Jul 2009
Soap

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…

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This and that…

By Andrea Maguire | 20 Jun 2009
Andrea

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…

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So, now to Soy

By Andrea Maguire | 14 Jun 2009
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…

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Not too much, not too little, but just right…

By Andrea Maguire | 7 Jun 2009
Fish Oil

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…

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