Nutrition Advice

Guest post: Why should we eat grass-fed (instead of grain-fed) meat?

Guest post: Why should we eat grass-fed (instead of grain-fed) meat?

If you’ve been introduced to the concepts of the paleo diet, then you’ve heard the terms “Grass­Fed” or “Pastured” in relation to Beef and Lamb.   To the uninitiated, this may seem a strange term ­ surely all cows and sheep are grass fed? After…

The ‘eatwell’ plate?

The ‘eatwell’ plate?

The UK government’s ‘eatwell’ plate couldn’t be further from what we evolved to eat. Do take a look at this plate and see for yourself – sugar, cornflakes, weetabix, white flour, bagels, white pasta, sugared baked beans, flavoured yogurt, soya milk, fruit in syrup, vegetable oil, Battenberg cake,…

Is paleo low-carb?

Is paleo low-carb?

Whenever the paleo diet is mentioned in the media it always seems to be lumped in the category of low-carb diets and particularly always seems to be mentioned alongside the Atkins diet.   So is paleo really a low-carb diet?   Well firstly we have…