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    Give up Sugar for 10 days; feel the difference

    When you give up sugar (not just glucose, but also alcohol, bought fruit juices, refined foods, fizzy drinks, alcohol, cake, biscuits, breads and pasta) for just 10-14 days, your body and your health will improve significantly. You’ll notice health improvements almost immediately.  You will stop insulin resistance; Around 70 per cent of Western adults have some degree of insulin resistance.…

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    Berberine can cut blood sugar and reduce blood pressure

    Berberine can cut blood sugar and reduce blood pressure The herbal component berberine, known to reduce blood sugar is shown in this research to reduce blood pressure and improve blood circulation reducing cardiovascular risk. People with Type-2 Diabetes have two significant risk factors – high blood sugar, and high blood pressure – which together increase their risk of vascular issues…

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    The High Fibre Rainbow Diet

    The high fibre Mediterranean diet contains good levels of both soluble and insoluble fibres, providing health benefits in diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, dementia; and in carbohydrate and cholesterol management; all thanks to your gut bacteria. When people hear that a diet is high in fibre, they simply assume that means it keeps you regular. Many people…

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    Meta-study shows high fat Rainbow Diet reduces risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease

    A meta-analysis of 56 unique studies, reviewed by Hanna E. Bloomfield, MD, MPH, from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minnesota and colleagues has shown that the high ‘good’ fat content of the colourful Mediterranean Diet, was associated with a reduction of breast cancer risk (57%) and colorectal cancer risk (9%), a reduction in diabetes risk (30%) and a reduction…

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    Rainbow Recipes – Cooking with turmeric, ginger or cumin

    Everybody understands the taste benefits of spices; Rainbow Recipes uses their health benefits too in three simple treats, one for each of turmeric, cumin, and ginger.   For thousands of years spices have been used to cure a variety of different ailments. But more recently we are beginning to understand that three key spices – turmeric, cumin and ginger –…

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    Mediterranean Diet reduces Type-2 diabetes risk

    The PREDIMED study has shown that the colourful Mediterranean Diet, or Rainbow Diet, can reduce the risk of Type-2 diabetes, by up to 50 per cent and is better than the standard low fat diet offered by doctors. Researchers actually found that the colourful Mediterranean Diet, or Rainbow Diet, was better that the standard low fat diet recommended by doctors…

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    The health benefits of pulses

    Pulses, or legumes, are very important ingredients in the colourful Mediterranean diet, the Rainbow Diet, for a number of reasons. 1. Pulses help control blood glucose and blood lipid levels. They help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. 2. Pulses are high in phytoestrogen – they help block human oestrogen from receptor sites in hormonally-driven cancer. 3. Pulses…

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    Rainbow diet links to improved bone structure as you age

    Olive oil preserves bone density because it increases essential bone hormone osteocalin concentrations and maintains blood calcium levels; it also maintains insulin levels in people with diabetes.  Osteporosis is a fear for many ageing men and women. But research in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM) has now shown that going on a two year colourful Mediterranean Diet…

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