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Show me your dog...
That's not a euphemism. My dog, where she usually is, staring at me intently waiting for something to happen...
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Why Did We Evolve a Taste for Sweetness?
I don't know if this has been posted before. I was just looking up whether there was an evolutionary benefit to humans liking "hyperpalatable" foods and ran across this... http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/03/why-did-we-evolve-a-taste-for-sweetness/ There are a couple (literally, two) references to the article and I…
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Sharing some food sources with you...
I've recently started ordering my meat produce in bulk online because I'm in a pretty crappy area shop-wise (all I have is a local Tesco Extra and a small Marks & Sparks), and thought I'd share a couple of my favourite sites with you as a way to save money and get your hands on good produce. You'll need lots of freezer…
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Click for a bunny rabbit...
This is Lily. She's a bunny. She has a wheelchair. Here's some sads before the awesome video. Lily had her back broken and had to have both her hind legs amputated. But thankfully she survived and now she gets to do this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkV4QfLH0c
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Kelly Holmes, Body Image & Training
On the Clare Balding show just now, talking overall about body image, but also how even young female athletes are so concerned about how their body is perceived as "feminine" or "attractive" to the media circus that they train very, very hard and don't adequately re-fuel their bodies. It seems like this pattern of starving…
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"Alternative" meats - where do you buy yours?
I'm quite a fan of more "exotic" meats, but - living in a pretty quiet part of South Wales - there's literally no butchers in my area (especially none within 10-15 miles that stock game, "exotic" meat, and the like) so I'm left with a paltry selection of meat I can get from my local Tesco supermarket. I can't even buy…
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Jerk Marinade Recipe
Good for chicken, pork, tofu and all kinds of vegetables. Especially good with ribs cooked on the BBQ (you can add a bit of honey, extra to the sugar, to make them sticky). 1/2 a small onion, a big handful of scallions or spring onions, whatever you like to call them, 1 chopped chilli or 1/2 tsp chilli flakes, 2 big garlic…
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Protein Jelly?
Or Jello, depending on where you're from. Has anyone tried this? I've got a bunch of sugar-free sachets of jelly powder of various flavours hanging around and a few pouches of flavoured whey protein, and wondered what it would be like to put the two together, for a practically zero-carb protein supplement. The protein…
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Recipes and Nutritional Info
Preface: I tend to flick through recipe books and like to try something new each week. I try to pick out meals that will fit into my diet using the nutritional info given for each recipe. Even though I know I won't be using the exact same produce, and therefore won't have the exact same nutritional info, I expect it to be…
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Hello!
I've posted a few times without ever thinking to introduce myself, so here we go. I'm Rachel (almost everyone calls me Raye), I'm 23 years and one month old, and I live in sunny old Wales, UK. I'm 5'4 (much to my surprise, I'd always told people I was 5'5) and currently around 145lbs. I used to weigh around 250. It's taken…
