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Category Archives: Food
Oct
21st
21st
When the cold autumn days come the thing which most of us would like to do is to stay under nice, worm blanket do for all day long. To add the pleasure to it: with delicious food cooked just for us.
As the cold season started we might thing that we have a limited variety of choices in vegetables to use for cooking. But is that right?
To name just a few which jump into my head: apples, cranberry, cauliflowers, brussels sprouts, sweet corns, pears, plums, sweet potatoes, and one of my favourite this season: butternut squash.
The squash has long been an established part of the diet in each of the five continents. Its exact origin is not clear but it is thought that it was eaten in the Americas over 5,000 years ago. It is known to have been cultivated by the Incas in the fifteenth century and remains a very important source of food throughout much of central and South America.
It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep orange, and becomes sweeter and richer. Reach in vitamins, nutritious, low in saturated fat and sodium butternut squash could be well balanced food source.
Treat yourself this autumn and cook the butternut squash risotto: for vegetarian as the main dish, for meat-lover (as myself) with the nice piece of grilled chicken.
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By in Food, Health
April 20, 2012 - 11:24 am
University of Oxford director Mike Rayner, urges government to tax all unhealthy foods from butter to biscuits.
Fat tax could help save thousands of lives. A fat tax could raise money and encourages people to eat more healthy foods, Rayner says.
The health promotion research group director said that at least 1/4 portion of the British adults are obese and that this drives the government to spend billions of pounds every year on health services.
He called for taxes of fatty foods like soft drinks for 12p, 2 cents bigger than fat tax in France. He claims that it would prevent thousands of death a year as people will now opt to buy healthier drinks.
Labour MP Angela Eagle and Liberal Democrat minister Steve Webb, however, suggested that better packaging and eduction would be more practical than adding tax on fatty foods.
“Taxes were already used to discourage people from drinking or smoking. Fat tax plan would definitely raise money for the Treasury and prevent deaths.” says Mr Rayner.
“There’s evidence to show that manipulating food prices can encourage healthy eating. So why are we so reluctant to change the way we tax food?” Rayner added.
See the rest of the story here
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