Tag: Nutrition
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Sodium vs Potassium in our Diet
Let’s Reduce Sodium and Eat a Potassium-Rich Diet! Did you know that too much salt is bad for us? My packet of crisps in front of the telly is not just bad for calories, it is also increasing my blood pressure and putting an extra strain on my heart. In this article, I’m going to…
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The Morning Coffee
To get a focused start of the day, I start with a mug of coffee – or two. It gets me going. I am sure there are many translators like me who like to kick off with a hot brew of Java. According to a study that was published in the Journal of Nutrition in…
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Muesli: not only etymologically interesting
Muesli – a Swiss German word Back in Switzerland, it was fairly common to eat oats either in the form of a Bircher Muesli (Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and a pioneer nutritionist, August 22, 1867 – January 24, 1939) or in a soup (Haferkernsuppe). I liked muesli as a lunch, especially during the hot…