By Paola Bassanese It’s Food Intolerance Week 23/1/2012-29/1/2012. YorkTest, the food allergy and intolerance laboratory, invites people to try their food intolerance pre-test at the reduced price of £9.99 (usually £19.99). This First Step Test is designed to detect antibodies related to food intolerances. The Second Stage would be to do a comprehensive test analysing [...]
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Paola’s delicious lamb’s liver pate
Paola’s delicious lamb’s liver pate by Paola Bassanese If you are vegetarian, look away now. I created this recipe after a recent facebook interaction with osteopath Ricardo Davids in the Health & Fitness Group lead by personal trainer Anthony Mayatt of Breathe Fitness Training and customising a twitter recipe for chicken liver pate from [...]
Book review: An Apple a Day, Dr J. Schwarcz
Dr Joe Schwarcz, “An apple a day. The myths, misconceptions, and truths about the food we eat”. Review by Paola Bassanese. Reading this book should be made compulsory to anyone studying nutrition. As a holder of an ITEC Diet and Nutrition Diploma myself, I have been literally “fed” factually weak information about food. In [...]
Eat like an athlete to stay slim
Eat like an athlete to stay slim by Paola Bassanese Inspired by aerial circus artist Julia who kindly kept a food diary sharing her healthy recipes, here’s some practical and delicious meal plans that will boost your energy and help you stay slim. Julia believes in and follows the traditional German eating philosophy: breakfast like [...]
Paola’s autumn soup
Paola’s autumn soup This soup is the equivalent of a brisk walk in the woods: heart-warming, delicately scented and invigorating for the body and soul. Ingredients 4 medium chestnut mushrooms 4 large Jerusalem artichokes 6 cooked chestnuts 100 gr tofu 1 pinch thyme 2 shallots 100 gr broad beans [...]
Super smoothies to the rescue!
Here’s some simple smoothie recipes to help you get some energy in the morning and curb the cravings during the day. Recipe 1: avocado smoothie (courtesy of @juliaerial) Blitz together: 1 avocado 1 x 1inch piece of ginger 1 handful of fresh spinach juice of half a lemon 1 tablespoon natural yoghurt apple juice 1 [...]
