How your body fares when you quit or cut back on meat
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People who live in the Blue Zones, which are areas with higher percentages of centenarians, tend to eat no more than five meat meals a month, usually in small servings of 85 to 113g. "Plant-based diets are lower in saturated fats and cholesterol and higher in fibre, healthy fats, low GI carbohydrates, folate, arginine, plant sterols, antioxidants and phytonutrients," Katherine Bagleh, accredited practising dietitian from Health Victory Nutrition Experts, told Coach. While eating meat can be Read the full story
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Why the label 'gluten-free' might not be as true as you think
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It's consumed by the loaf-load by hipsters, but is the gluten-free bread sold in supermarkets actually made without gluten? Maybe not, suggests a team of Aussie scientists. New research from the University of Western Australia has found that some imported foods labelled as gluten-free contain trace amounts of gluten. That might concern those with coeliac disease (CD), an autoimmune disease where consuming even small amounts of gluten causes the lining of your gut to become inflamed, leading to Read the full story
