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About Dianne Mower

I want to help you make healthier choices when it comes to food. By giving you lots of good information and ideas, I aim to inspire you to make permanent changes and adopt the health eating as a lifestyle and not a diet.

Real life health tip: Hot water and lemon

April 22 Health and Nutrition 1 comment

Today’s real life health tip is about making hot water and lemon your first drink of the day. When you wake in the morning commonly your mouth will feel dry or a little sticky. This is worse if the last drink you h...

Review: Lizi’s Granola or toast and coffee?

April 15 Food and Drink 4 comments

Nearly 1/3rd of daily fibre requirement, low sugar impact, reasonable calorie content, coconut flavour, suitable for veggies and vegans Significant saturated fat levels, not guaranteed wheat free, tastes bland &nb...

Breakfast recipe: quick (ish) and healthy

April 12 Breakfast, Recipes no comments

I peered in my fridge this morning and found a heap of tomatoes. So that was that; it was going to be a breakfast recipe for toms. I halved them, sprinkled with some dried thyme and drizzled with olive oil, popped them i...

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Carbohydrates: What are they?

April 12 Foods, Health and Nutrition no comments

There is a lot of chat about carbohydrates but what are they? Are they good? Or the food of the devil as some will have you believe? Here is simple (if slightly long) edited excellent explanation from Dummies.com that an...

Oven roasted tomatoes with thyme and a little olive oil

Lycopene

April 12 Food School, Health and Nutrition no comments

Lycopene (edited) information from WedMD; Lycopene is a naturally occurring chemical that gives fruits and vegetables a red color. It is one of a number of pigments called carotenoids. It is found in watermelons, pink gr...

Fresh royal jelly elixir; a shot in the arm or a shot in the wallet?

April 11 Supplements no comments

Easy to take, tastes good, convenient to carry around, decent pack quantity, delivers instant lift, can buy online Needs to be taken for a month for sustained benefits, £.2.34 per day, not for vegetarians or those with a...

Metrodeco Teas Brighton

April 4 Food and Drink 5 comments

Good quality ingredients, unique combinations, well presented, beautiful flavours Online shop needs creases ironing out and a ‘Search’ facility installed, some teas are pricey for every day The company Metr...

Tropicana 50 review

March 25 Food and Drink no comments

When the very pleasant people representing Tropicana 50 sent me a free sample, I felt duty bound to review it and (hopefully) say something positive. Being a food reviewer gives me a problem. I’m a really agreeable perso...

How to get 5 a day: Advice from Auntie

March 20 Food School, Health and Nutrition, How to, In the Media no comments

With all the talk about the problems of obesity, a burgeoning ageing population and rising death rates within certain groups, it is easy to forget we do have answers. Earlier this week BBC Health did a piece on 5 a day. ...

Danio yoghurt: Does this product tick all my healthy eating boxes?

March 8 Food and Drink, In the Media no comments

I was invited this week to the launch of the new Danone product, Danio. This latest addition to the Danone line is a pot of the most deliciously naughty tasting yoghurt (both low and no fat varieties) which hides a layer...

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