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Does it really matter if your 5-a-day is all fruit or all vegetables?

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It seems like just days ago that we were talking about the surprising knock-on effects of really concentrating your efforts into eating plenty of fruit and veg.  It’s a great way to make healthy eating incredibly simple.  The idea prompted a lot of discussion and also this question on Twitter – does it matter if your five a day Read the full post

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Shake up your wake up!

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The week just past was Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2011. In the spirit of this year’s theme Shake Up Your Wake Up there have been a plethora of fresh and inventive breakfast recipes appearing online and offline.  There weren’t enough breakfasts in the day to get through this lot in a week and so thought I would gather all of the … Read the full post

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How to make healthy eating incredibly simple this year

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Today is 1/1/11. There’s been a lot of talk about resolutions already, particularly around health, nutrition and exercise. And you know what, it’s all getting a bit complicated out there – do eat this, don’t eat that, cook it this way, not that way.

Rather than create a set of complicated resolutions, how about we make healthy eating incredibly simple … Read the full post

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Easy ways to keep yourself healthy this Winter

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Everybody has their own way of keeping themselves healthy over the Winter.  I thought Eva (one of our lovely ex-battery ladies) had frostbite when we came back from our trip to see her looking like this. But no, those little white tubes around the top of her head are actually new feathers forming, prompted by a combination of very … Read the full post

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