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Healthy Eating

Death of a Seeds-man

By Andrea Maguire / 24 Oct 2009
Cornfield

Quite bizarrely, my last blog (Just Blown Away) about soil erosion and declining soil quality due to modern conventional farming methods was published on exactly…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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