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Eating wholegrain, wholemeal and other high fibre foods such as vegetables and fruits can significantly lower your risk of developing heart disease and stroke. The beneficial effects on heart health have even been compared with taking statin drugs.
There has previously been more evidence for the benefits of dietary fibre relative to heart disease than [...]

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‘Home cooked’ – the expression carries with it a reassuring tag of healthiness and goodness doesn’t it ?
We’ve all gotten used to the warnings about fast food and take out food being loaded with high [...]

By Ann-Marie Waters, Associate Editor.

The evidence that garlic and onions – considered to be two of the most highly pungent vegetables goes back for centuries. In Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, both vegetables were used to treat heart disease. Clay models of garlic bulbs were found in an Egyptian tomb dated from 3750 BC!
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Welcome to the heart friendly egg and bacon academy !
Bacon’s popularity with the British people is never ending. Now that the British Heart Foundation have given eggs the go ahead too,  we have given the great [...]

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Mediterranean people have grown and used Olives – the fruit of the olive tree, for thousands of years. It is believed to be responsible for the good health and longevity of the people who consume [...]

Carotenoids are the pigments found naturally in many fruits and vegetables that give them the distinctive yellow, orange and scarlet red colouring. Chefs have long utilised this colourful combination to spice up the appearance of their culinary creations. All richly coloured red orange and yellow vegetables contain generous quantities of these natural healing compounds. They are [...]

Historical Suspicion of Eggs
Poultry eggs have long been regarded with suspicion and labelled as high cholesterol foods due to their association with raising levels of blood cholesterol, leading to heart disease and heart attacks. This dates back many years, due in part to decades old advice from the British Heart Foundation (revised in 2005) that egg [...]

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New research indicates that Tea is a healthier drink than water
This is based on research carried out by Scientists from Kings College London, which has been published by the prestigious European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Tea [...]