Author Archives: Scott & Rhonda

Salt in bowls

Salt – is it bad for you?

Today’s post is about the myth that ‘Salt is bad for you’. There is a lot of information available in regards to salt and health. I found many health articles reporting on how bad salt is for our health. Conversely, there are also an equal number of articles reporting that it is good for our

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Spinach leaves

Spinach and Iron – myth or fact ??

Today i’m going to tackle the myth that Spinach provides us with lots of Iron. The idea that spinach contained exceptional levels of iron originated in 1870 with a German chemist named Erich von Wolf. Dr Von Wolf was researching the nutritional benefits of this leafy vegetable. In his notes, he accidentally printed the decimal

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Sweat and sweating

Today’s topic is about sweat, sweat glands and sweating. This stems from an article I read this morning discussing whether we shower ‘too much’. It quoted a study conducted by the University School of Nursing in Columbia, which claims we don’t need to wash once a day. The idea being that the body does a

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