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Recently I was invited by the Complementary Medicine Association to present on the health benefits of extra-virgin olive oil, and talk about the problems with adulteration of olive oil.
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I’m excited to be included today on the Olive Wellness Institute’s list of Expert Contributors.
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Read most nutrition blogs and you’ll discover numerous posts on various amazing “healthy” foods. Quinoa – an amazing source of protein. Agave nectar – a healthy substitute for sugar. Acai berries – antioxidant superfood. But are they any better than some other common foods? Lifehacker Australia recently ran an good story pointing out that some of these “health” foods are overrated.
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Not everybody realises the duplicity exhibited by many major food corporations – on the one hand profiting from the sale of high sugar/high fat/high salt processed foods, and on the other claiming to support good nutrition choices.
Continue reading “How to force ethics on the Food Industry – New York Times”
Scientific American reports on a new method to detect coffee adulteration.
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The American Botanical Council’s HerbClipTM service recently provided a summary of a paper entitled Cocoa & human health.
Continue reading “ABC HerbClip: Review of cocoa and human health”Apparently food chemists have found how to replace a significant amount of natural cacao fat with various liquids like fruit juice or alcohol, if a special emulsion is created using agar.
Continue reading “An abomination! Mixing chocolate with agar to reduce fat”In April 2010 I wrote about Green & Black’s dark chocolate now having milk declared as an ingredient. Not long after that I received an email from Craig Sams, President of Green & Black’s discussing this issue.
Continue reading “More on milk in Green & Black’s dark chocolate”The ABC is reporting on a study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which seems to show that depressed people eat more chocolate. This is interesting due to the much discussed – but often poorly studied – link between mood and chocolate. However more detailed conclusions are not yet possible from this study.
Continue reading “Study: Depressed people eat more chocolate”I recently heard from a friend that Green & Black’s chocolate, once a company offering fine quality milk and dark chocolate, has started putting milk products in all of its range, even its dark chocolate. Today I had a look at the range on the shelf of a local store and sure enough, even their dark 85% block had milk products listed as ingredients.
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