A suggestion from a doctor WE should be focussing on improving our diet to improve the odds against succumbing to COVID 19. How about adding this to the COVID 19 messaging we are being bombarded on a daily basis?
Thanks Bentley.
Poor Diet Helping COVID 19 to Penetrate
A suggestion from a doctor WE should be focussing on improving our diet to improve the odds against succumbing to COVID 19. How about adding this to the COVID 19 messaging we are being bombarded on a daily basis? Thanks Bentley.
64 responses to “Poor Diet Helping COVID 19 to Penetrate”
The following article from the “Daily Mail’, UK is topical and some readers may find it interesting.
Some foods CAN be eaten after Best Before day by up to three years later, including Heinz Beanz, according to new government guidance released in bid to reduce waste
Tinned goods can be eaten up to three years after their Best Before, says WRAP
Some vegetable and bread can also last for one week, according to guidance
But it is advised bakery goods are checked for mould and packaging for quality
It comes as increased food waste is expected amid the coronavirus pandemic
Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
By KATIE WESTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:10 BST, 2 May 2020 | UPDATED: 13:34 BST, 2 May 2020
Some foods can be consumed after their Best Before day by up to three years later, including Heinz Beanz, according to new government guidance released in a bid to reduce waste.
WRAP, which advises the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), says tinned goods such as Heinz Beanz and soup, alongside pasta, jars of jam and meat, can be eaten up to three years after their expiration date.
It comes as increased food waste is expected from the £1.9billion worth of groceries stockpiled by panic-buyers at the start of the coronavirus crisis.
The guidance also says packaged cake can be eaten three months after its Best Before day and crisps, provided they are not stale, can be eaten a month after the date.
Some fruit and vegetables and packaged bread can be eaten a week after the date, if mould is not present.
It is advised that bakery goods and packaging be checked for quality.
Peter Maddox, Director of WRAP, said: ‘Food businesses are doing an incredible job ensuring that food which cannot be sold at this time moves around the supply chain to feed people, and isn’t wasted.
‘Our guide will help by giving clear advice on how best to redistribute food that’s exceeded the Best Before date.
‘The law states that all food with a Best Before date can be sold, redistributed and consumed after that date, as long as it’s still good quality, but we appreciate that isn’t understood by all, or universally implemented.
Jamie Crummie, co-founder of Too Good To Go UK, added: ‘Date labelling has, and continues to be, a confusing issue for both businesses and consumers. This uncertainty could lead to food waste on a large scale across society.
‘For example, last year we found that 720 million eggs are wasted by Brits each year because of confusions around “Best Before” date labelling.
‘”Best Before” is simply a measure of quality rather than safety and we welcome the latest guidance from WRAP for food business and redistribution organisations on the issue.’
A full list of how long goods can last beyond their Best Before day
Bread and bakery goods: One week
Crisps: One month
Biscuits and cereals: Six months
Canned goods: One year
Pasta sauces: One year
Confectionery: One year
Dried pasta: Three years
Jams: Three to five years
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@RL,
thanks v much for the information, mate. in depth knowledge.
i am located or rather hope to be in the CH CH area in Providence. the land is a large track of grass piece which is rocky with a slither of top soil in most areas.
what i am asking, is, should i buy or arrange for soil to augment what is there in order to plant the fruit trees and or to indulge in my other agricultural pursuit. i want to do something along the permaculture lines as popularised by Geoff Lawton. or would what is there suffice?
@ Greene May 2, 2020 5:16 PM
If the soil is thin there is no harm in adding some top soil. You do not have to add top soil to the entire area. You can use a blend of permaculture and orchard. West Indian lime ought to do pretty well on the thin soils. A short cut would be to excavate each plant site and add some top soil to each of the excavated holes in the limestone and then plant the tree. In any event if you plant fruit trees, you will need to establish a wind break. You could try Barbados Cherry. kill two birds with one stone.
@RL
thanks again. i was going to use moringa as wind breaks but i will consider the Barbados cherry. the land is sloped so would excavating plant holes be affected by this and would plant holes in hardish limestone not lead to curling of roots if they cant penetrate the limestone?
Greene May 3, 2020 9:06 AM
The least of your worries is the pressure with which roots penetrate sub-surface rocks. Roots readily go into and out of rocks. It is a case of finding a weak area in the rock and exploiting it. The growing root tip exerts great pressure. I figured that the land was on an incline. In such a case plant along the contour. You get less soil erosion and you can harness excess rain water by means of channels or pipes to the lower contour levels.
Most subsurface limestone is friable and roots can readily penetrate .For the hard limestone, .the roots will by-pass the area .
@RL
thanks once again.
one last note- what plant, shrub, tree, would make a good natural defensive fence/border?
Greene May 4, 2020 8:32 AM
A hedge of sweet line. A saw such a hedge when on my walks in Salter’s Tenantry Road. it surrounded about five acres. I witnessed from the initial stages until it was mature.. Height of about five feet and about three feet wide. There were no spaces where one could infiltrate. Plus the sweet lime is full of thorns. Sweet lime used to be very popular for this reason when I was young. if you pass through Belle Gulley you can see examples of sweet lime hedges.
@RL,
Again thank you. was thinking about bougainvillea for its thorns and beautiful flowers but may go with your recommendation
https://youtu.be/qVXPNPpRGz4
@ Greene
I am not a horticulturalist, but in criminology there is the idea of planning out burglaries. By this is meant planting brambles around the border so that thieves will find it difficult getting in, and certainly escaping with your property. Worth a thought.
My father in law has a big breadfruit tree in his garden and some young people just walk in and pick the breadfruits, not one or two, but enough to sell on. A wire fence cannot keep them out and CCTV is useful after the event.
Exposure to chemical in Roundup increases risk for cancer, study findsDate:University of Washington
CNN)Glyphosate, an herbicide that remains the world’s most ubiquitous weed killer, raises the cancer risk of those exposed to it by 41%, a new analysis says.
Researchers from the University of Washington evaluated existing studies into the chemical — found in weed killers including Monsanto’s popular Roundup — and concluded that it significantly increases the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a cancer of the immune system.
“All of the meta-analyses conducted to date, including our own, consistently report the same key finding: exposure to GBHs (glyphosate-based herbicides) are associated with an increased risk of NHL,” the authors wrote in a study published in the journal Mutation Research.
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