Bernard Preston Blog

If Bernard Preston's inspirational books do not awaken in you the desire to live long in the land, then alas I have failed! Oh yes, and the desire to sit under those trees you once planted, to nurture those grandchildren you have borne.

Alas, sometimes it takes a fist banging on the skull, or a pick axe to break open the frozen sea within us. Is poor health trying to tell you something...? Just where are you planning to live, if you don't look after your bod, eh?

Apr 27, 2024

How to dry peppers is easy when you have a glut in the garden.

How to dry peppers enables you to control the heat and if you are neurotic about pesticides as I am you can be absolutely certain it is organic.

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Apr 27, 2024

Foods that lower cholesterol suggests oats, chickpeas and apples.

Foods that lower cholesterol questions whether you have been suffering from erectile dysfunction since taking statins. You are not alone; think fatty fish.

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Apr 27, 2024

Stunting story weighs hunger versus malnutrition in our children.

Stunting story weighs hunger versus malnutrition in relation to the general acceptance that refined grains like maizemeal and polished rice are good food.

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Apr 27, 2024

Fast healthy dinner recipes so you can enjoy your food without guilt.

Fast healthy dinner recipes can be made with a little aforethought, getting back to the wholesome meals of our great-grandmothers.

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Apr 26, 2024

Cherry-guava honey mead preserves the polyphenols in the fruit.

Cherry-guava honey mead can be made with either the raw berries or the boiled and then extracted juice.

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Apr 26, 2024

Nine bean rows and a hive for the honeybee if from a poem by Yeats.

Nine bean rows and a hive for the honeybee weighs some thoughts by various authors on the need for stillness in the quest for peace and finding our true selves.

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Apr 25, 2024

Cardboard in worm-farms is to increase the carbon to nitrogen ratio.

Cardboard in worm-farms, known as a bulking agent, should consist of about 20 percent of the feed; it also helps control the water content.

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Apr 25, 2024

Carbs in the life of a believer reminds us of the richness of seeds.

Carbs in the life of a believer shows how modern milling has taken natural grains and turned them into pseudo foods from the Devil's Pantry.

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Apr 24, 2024

Canned versus dried chickpeas asks if it is worth the schlep.

Canned versus dried chickpeas reveals that the convenience in making your quick hummus comes at a price.

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Apr 24, 2024

Are the cities of South Africa water scarce is a serious question.

Are the cities of South Africa water scarce is determined by the ratio of demand to supply. Is that which is available greatly underestimated?

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Apr 23, 2024

Easy sourdough bread recipe uses a starter of yeast and friendly bugs.

Easy sourdough bread recipe takes less about ten-minutes to make and allows you to choose how much salt and the kind of flour; there is less gluten intolerance.

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Apr 23, 2024

Calories in hummus asks what is the garbanzo bean and chickpea story?

Calories in hummus invites the question whether it is fattening and are these legumes friendly?

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Apr 23, 2024

Broccoli facts include tumour prevention; it is rich in folate too.

Broccoli facts help us to uncover some of the basic science behind the "queen of tumour-prevention."

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Apr 21, 2024

Best medicinal herbs gives you a guide to a few of our favourites.

Best medicinal herbs says include some of these on a regular basis before the day of serious illness arrives; simply the flavour makes it worthwhile.

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Apr 21, 2024

Best bread in South Africa for only five rand per loaf.

Best bread in South Africa but there is a catch; you need a mill and know a farmer who grows the wheat.

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Apr 21, 2024

Believers can enjoy green mealies completely without guilt.

Believers can enjoy green mealies but refined maize is straight from the Devil's Pantry; all of the bran and most of the nutrients have been extracted.

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Apr 21, 2024

About describes Bernard Preston's background.

About details his qualifications and experience as a chiropractor, one who is completely obsessed with healthy living and caring for the environment.

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Apr 21, 2024

Avoid plastic in water by harvesting the rain from the gutters.

Avoid plastic in water by harvesting the rain and then storing it underground where it will be very cold; micoparticles deposited in the arteries are deadly.

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Apr 21, 2024

Artificial sweeteners cause weight gain due to loss of satiety.

Artificial sweeteners cause weight gain by disturbing the usual neuro-hormonal mechanisms; they raise the risk of metabolic syndrome by 44%.

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Apr 21, 2024

Are favas shell beans is critical to getting full value from them.

Are favas shell beans may seem a silly question but reckon on the L-dopa in the pod too.

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Apr 21, 2024

Pascal's wager is an argument put forward by an eminent scientist.

Pascal's wager suggests that it makes more sense to chance believing certain things even though eventually we may be proved wrong; small losses vs large gains.

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Apr 20, 2024

A healthy diet for prediabetes means strictly limiting refined carbs.

A healthy diet for prediabetes explores the different options, the philosophies about starches and the role of fat; and the power of walking to lower BG.

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Apr 20, 2024

Nutritious choice foods are the way to reach a happy, vibrant old age.

Nutritious choice foods are not difficult to prepare; slow meals made fast is our slogan.

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Apr 19, 2024

Orange juice press, hand or electric means freshly-squeezed OJ.

Orange juice press adds another dimension. The whole fruit is only better if you strain out the pulp; and with it the vitamin C, the fibre and bioflavonoids.

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Apr 19, 2024

Orange juice bioflavonoids are real functional foods.

Orange juice bioflavonoids promote health and help to prevent disease; but the pasteurizing process used in OJ greatly reduces their anti-oxidant properties.

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Apr 19, 2024

Organic butternut are heavy feeders.

Organic butternut need a mound of compost and the plants will follow you in the kitchen door if you are not careful. For me it is about the very best soup.

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Apr 19, 2024

Stunting Story has three elements that make up any good story.

The Stunting Story has three elements of something knocked off kilter, forces gathering to restore harmony and the counter parties blocking progress.

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Apr 19, 2024

Re-establish the intestinal microbes with kefir.

Re-establish the intestinal microbes using probiotics made very simply in your own kitchen; it takes only five minutes.

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Apr 16, 2024

How to get more fiber to support those friendly bugs in the intestine.

How to get more fiber from our food will probably have a greater effect and make a larger contribution to our wellness than almost any other factor.

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Apr 16, 2024

How to make kefir for the easiest probiotic in your own kitchen.

How to make kefir takes about five-minutes. It cured in one week a severe bellyache of many years from a stubborn helicobacter infection; a brewing ulcer.

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