Health Mango

Vegetables are our natural food. Yet very few people are aware that vegetables contain carbohydrates. When asked what they contain, most people say that vegetables contain vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fibre but never carbohydrate! Recollect your first lesson in botany on photosynthesis when you learnt how sunlight is trapped by the chlorophyll in leaves to make carbohydrate and then consider what herbivores eat in nature.

Drinking one to one and a half pegs (60 to 90ml) of whisky, gin, brandy or rum, 325ml of beer or 150ml dry wine every day has been shown to help control hypertension, increase the HDL, prevent inflammation, improve insulin sensitivity and prevent blood from clotting in the arteries.