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Sep 23Liked by Lizzie Wingfield

A few million years ago, when the first studies on the DASH (Dietary approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet were published, I interviewed one of the lead researchers. She essentially said, if you cook most of your food from scratch and avoid processed foods, odds are you’ll be okay.

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That is very interesting!

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"my baconless purgatory" made me smile. For me, purgatory would probably be cheesel-ess or maybe that would be hell?

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I definitely think it would be.

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You always really make me guffaw too

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Thank you so much for saying! Have a lovely day!

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I often have salad for breakfast, hummus too. Good luck with it on colder, rainy days though.

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There is that! Humus a great idea for breakfast!

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Salad for breakfast convert here thanks to you. Mind you, writing this drinking a massive hot chocolate at 5am - I blame Covid…

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There are peer-reviewed studies about the unique Covid-curing properties of massive hot chocolate. Sorry you have Covid, and hope you recover soon!

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