Posts From Kathy Magilton

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What’s So Great About Rosemary?

Let’s see…. We’ve done parsley and sage so we might as well check out rosemary and thyme and wrap it all up with a big old hippy sing-a-long no? One

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What’s So Great About Asian Pears?

This weeks’ post is short and sweet. The food in question doesn’t cause cancer or deplete the ocean of valuable resources. It won’t raise your blood pressure, it’s not radioactive

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What’s So Bad About Tuna

As I polished off my third can of tuna in as many days last week I thought to myself “self, three cans in one week, really?” I know you’re not

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What’s So Great About Dates?

Discovery Health dubs them “nuggets of nutrition that satisfy a sweet tooth” which frankly makes them sound good for you and adorable. They also call dates a “natural weight loss

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What’s So Great About Fruit, Carbs, Coffee and more.

Our lovely, hilarious, but most of all informative, Kathy Magilton is off this week so we’ve brought you five of our favourites from her recent posts. Of course, I’m always

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What’s So Great About Coriander?

In another instalment of “Herbs: Who Knew?” we learn that coriander (aka cilantro) is more than just a flavour boost and like so many of its unassuming little herb-y friends,

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What’s So Bad About Carrageenan?

Do you sometimes get a little overwhelmed trying to weed through the piles of conflicting nutrition recommendations that seem to lose favour as quickly as they gained it? Just when

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What’s So Great About Tropical Fruit?

We tend to think of them as “specialty” fruits for some reason. Maybe it’s because they’re exotic and travel from so far away. Or maybe it’s because we associate them

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What’s So Great About Protein?

If you workout, see a trainer or read fitness and health magazines you’re probably well aware of how important protein is in your diet. Certainly, if you have children, you

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What’s So Great About Carbs?

Two weeks out from the excesses of the holiday feed fest and it might be tempting to jump on the low carb train, headed for Skinny Town, alllll aboard…”no ma’am,