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Rainbow Diet
Living younger, longer in Sardinia
Nowhere is the colourful Mediterranean diet better exemplified than in the island of Sardinia where goats or sheep graze in the family olive groves and fish are eaten with tomatoes, whole grain pasta and a little wine. Sardinia has mountains to almost 4,000 metres and lies surrounded by the Mediterranean sea, its northerly tip below Rome and its southerly tip…
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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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Rainbow Diet
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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