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Rainbow Diet
What can I eat on the real Rainbow Diet?
The real Rainbow diet, or colourful Mediterranean diet, is a natural, whole food diet that is supported by thousands of years of health and longevity. It’s core is olive oil; nuts and seeds, red wine and unpasteurized cheese; and sunshine, exercise, sleep and enjoyment with friends and family; it’s a Lifestyle not an eating regime. The real Rainbow Diet is not about…
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Rainbow Recipes
Rainbow Recipes – Sprout Seeds for delicious healthy salads
Sprouting seeds are powerhouses of nutrients and here Barbara Cox tells you how to sprout seeds at home, the types, the nutritional benefits, the problems and the best way to eat them. Let’s Get Sprouting Packed with a superb balance of vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates and fat, the seeds of a plant are one of our finest source of nutrition.…
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Rainbow Diet
Mediterranean Diet reduces brain shrinkage.
The colourful Mediterranean Diet (or Rainbow Diet) can reduce brain shrinkage as you age. A study which followed 70 year-old Scottish people for 6 years has found that a low adherence to the colourful Mediterranean Diet results in much greater brain shrinkage. The group were followed using a dietary notebook, and then scanned using MRI. The brain scans were then…
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What is healthy fibre?
There are two types of healthy fibre: soluble fibre, which feeds your helpful gut bacteria and makes compounds to help you live a healthier life, and insoluble fibre which helps clear waste from the gut. Here are examples of fibre, and benefits. Dietary fibre – essential for health Dietary fibre (also called roughage) is the part of your food that…
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