There is a saying ‘we should drink our food and chew our liquid’. I know it doesn’t seem to make sense but the bottom line is that we should chew our food until it becomes a liquid so we end up drinking it. Chewing ensures that food is primed and ready for the stomach to…
Our grandparents, and all the generations before them, would have eaten seasonally. It wasn’t a choice, it was how it has always been, until the invention of the supermarket that is. Traditionally we would have swapped and traded foods and if there was a good harvest on one particular variety of food then it was…
Food transit time is the amount of time our food takes to digest from mouth to anus. Around 24 hours is ideal but in many cases it can longer or shorter. A few hours either side of the ideal 24 hours is acceptable but many of us have transit times of 50, 60 or even…