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DR DAVID UNWIN and chef KATIE CALDESI bring you the comfort food you can scoff and still be low carb

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Today, in the third part of our life-changing series, NHS GP Dr David Unwin reveals how going low-carb has helped type 2 diabetes patients reduce their medication doses — or even come off it completely — and why it is not just those with diabetes that can benefit.  Meanwhile, chef and food writer Katie Caldesi offers … Read more

Food for the brain! Fascinating book of ‘uncommon knowledge’

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MISCELLANY UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE   by Tom Standage (Economist £8.99, 272 pp)  This is what Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist, calls ‘a compendium of explanations’. It’s uncommon knowledge in two senses of the word: in the normal sense of ‘rare or infrequently encountered’, and also as in the meaning ‘exceptional and extraordinary’. In short, it’s … Read more