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NEWS: It’s Official: vegans reduce their cancer risk by 24%

NEWS: It’s Official: vegans reduce their cancer risk by 24%

The results of a massive eight year study of 30,000 volunteers by the Loma Linda University (their Adventist Health Study-2) were recently published and it found vegans have a 24% reduced risk of cancers. In the case of younger vegans, the risk is even less:…

VEGANISM: The Inconvenient Truth

VEGANISM: The Inconvenient Truth

Despite all our technical wizardry our bodies are largely the same as they were thousands of years ago, closely related to our primate relatives, such as gorillas, monkeys and chimpanzees. They are all vegan plant eaters – just like we should also be (plus mushrooms!).…

LONGEVITY: Paul’s Longevity Stew

LONGEVITY: Paul’s Longevity Stew

Research any of the centenarian and supercentenarians (those living more than 100 years) and one commonality is they all eat some form of minestrone. So I have evolved my own version over the years, which – the proof being in the pudding – looks like…

GROW YOUR OWN: How To Multiply Your Herbs For Free

GROW YOUR OWN: How To Multiply Your Herbs For Free

Have you ever bought a pot of fresh herbs, such as basil, parsley, coriander or rosemary from your supermarket only to be frustrated when – despite all the care you lavish on it – it’s dead within a couple of weeks? Fear not, you might…

NEWS: What Comes First – the Chicken or the … MUSHROOM?

NEWS: What Comes First – the Chicken or the … MUSHROOM?

Here’s some heartening news for healthy vegan eating because Derek Sarno has bought an old chicken farm in Norfolk (that’s the original Norfolk here in the UK, guys – not the one in Virginia), transforming it into Mushroom Central. So, once where chickens were slaughtered…

RECIPE: Roasted Garlic And Sweet Potato Mash

RECIPE: Roasted Garlic And Sweet Potato Mash

Garlic is just about one of the best vegetables you can eat for your health. But it does come with one or two problems. You may hate the taste or smell of garlic. And, even if you love garlic with a passion, just five minutes…

FAKING IT: Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

FAKING IT: Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

Especially when they are creating beautiful pure vegan cheese without a whole bunch of preservatives like you find in most store bought vegan cheese.

RECIPE: Tomato, Broccoli and Pappardelle Pasta

RECIPE: Tomato, Broccoli and Pappardelle Pasta

Apart from tasting wonderful, there are some powerful nutrients at work in this wonderfully tasty meal that will be most beneficial for men over 40 by being very kind to their prostate. Tomato cooked in olive oil yields the valuable antioxidant lycopene. And, when coupled…

RECIPE: Basil and Walnut Pesto

RECIPE: Basil and Walnut Pesto

If you’ve followed my advice and multiplied your single basil plant from the supermarket into many more, by now,  you’re probably up to your armpits in basil leaves. So here’s a simple and utterly decadent way to quickly turn them into a very satisfying meal.…

LONGEVITY: Fancy Some Forest Bathing?

LONGEVITY: Fancy Some Forest Bathing?

In the 1980s Japanese scientists noticed a correlation between the high density of forest in a particular area and the lower rates of breast, prostate and other cancers in the same area: the more forest in an area, the lower the incidence of the cancers.…


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LONGEVITY: Paul’s Longevity Stew

LONGEVITY: Paul’s Longevity Stew

Research any of the centenarian and supercentenarians (those living more than 100 years) and one commonality is they all eat some form of minestrone. So I have evolved my own version over the years, which – the proof being in the pudding – looks like…

GROW YOUR OWN: How To Multiply Your Herbs For Free

GROW YOUR OWN: How To Multiply Your Herbs For Free

Have you ever bought a pot of fresh herbs, such as basil, parsley, coriander or rosemary from your supermarket only to be frustrated when – despite all the care you lavish on it – it’s dead within a couple of weeks? Fear not, you might…

NEWS: What Comes First – the Chicken or the … MUSHROOM?

NEWS: What Comes First – the Chicken or the … MUSHROOM?

Here’s some heartening news for healthy vegan eating because Derek Sarno has bought an old chicken farm in Norfolk (that’s the original Norfolk here in the UK, guys – not the one in Virginia), transforming it into Mushroom Central. So, once where chickens were slaughtered…

RECIPE: Roasted Garlic And Sweet Potato Mash

RECIPE: Roasted Garlic And Sweet Potato Mash

Garlic is just about one of the best vegetables you can eat for your health. But it does come with one or two problems. You may hate the taste or smell of garlic. And, even if you love garlic with a passion, just five minutes…

FAKING IT: Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

FAKING IT: Blessed Are The Cheesemakers

Especially when they are creating beautiful pure vegan cheese without a whole bunch of preservatives like you find in most store bought vegan cheese.