by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 5, 2018 | Cartoon Club
I was reading some research by Charles Duhigg that looked at what happened when Starbucks tried to implement a health plan. Despite employees being given access to gym memberships and diet workshops, they couldn’t get any traction. The trouble it seems was that...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jul 4, 2018 | Primal Diet
It’s just crazy how much data some of these grocery stores are collecting on us. Everything from your job history to the magazines you read and even where are your kids go to school. They collect this because each shopper’s habits are unique. Researchers at the...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 28, 2018 | Primal Diet
I was at the Chocolate Tasting event last week at the Shalford Mill. Jo of Koko Chocolate was taking about how their chocolate is “Raise Trade” sourced, which is different than Fair Trade sourced. It got me curious about the different types of chocolate. I was...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 27, 2018 | Cartoon Club
Just when I thought that the processed food scientists couldn’t get any trickier, they have! Check out Doritos Roulette crips; these are tortilla crisps where some chips are much hotter and spicier than others. They even have a warning on the package saying “some...
by Sarah Jane Vickery | Jun 6, 2018 | Primal Diet
It was Dr. Robert Lustig’s talk, “Sugar, the bitter truth” that first really scared me on this topic. He explains how fructose is metabolised in the body. It never crossed my mind the parallels between orange juice and alcohol until I learned how similarly they are...
