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  • NewsSamantha Simmonds, Fashion and Lifestyle Blogger

    15 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With A Sweet Potato

    Gram for gram, the sweet potato is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet. One medium spud provides more than 400% of your RDA of vitamin A. It’s also packed with vitamin C, manganese, copper, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, potassium, dietary fibre, niacin, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and phosphorus. We’re going to go ahead and assume that, by now, you’ve baked, stuffed, spiralised and - yes - toasted yours… but did you know that you could transform your leftovers into the perfect sugar free b

  • NewsDr. Pamela Fergusson

    Vegetarian diet could save lives, study finds

    Researchers at the University of Oxford have published a landmark paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America that may have just the answer you’re looking for. Recognizing that unhealthy diets and obesity are among the biggest contributors to disease and premature death globally, the authors attempt to model the potential impact of dietary change. The results are staggering: According to the authors, if everyone, globally, were to follow World H