Food tips
Buy Local Food : Take a child shopping with you, pick up one of the offending products and say quite loudly "Well we’re not buying that, think of the energy it’s used up just getting here!"
Oven Tips : Fan-forced ovens cost 35% less to run than a conventional electric oven.
Weight loss info
The Atkins’ Diet
Now nearly 5 decades old, the atkins diet has been one of the most popular weight loss systms over the last few years. Popular with many famous celebrities, it allows fat reduction whilst still eating foods that are normally considered bad for diets, eg lamb and cheeses.
With the atkins diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, avoiding carbohydrates almost completely. It is referred to as a high protein, low carb, diet system.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, amongst them, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
On the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat continues to be nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish & poultry.
You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.
The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The 'science' behind the famous atkins diet is that if we eat fewer carbohydrates, we will utilize our stored fat and we will achieve weight loss