11 h. ago World record Marathon runner Paula Radcliffe shares must eat food before a run

With Manchester Marathon coming up this weekend Paula Radcliffe has revealed the best way she fuels herself before a run – he's everything you need to know

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15 h. ago Here's exactly what to eat before running the London Marathon

The way you fuel your body on the big day can make or break your performance, so here's a guide on the food you should eat before and on marathon morning. From meals to snacks, we've got you covered

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4 d. ago Gut instinct: why your spring menu should be full of plant points

Hannah Twiggs speaks to nutritionist Dr Emily Prpa about how something called ‘plant points’ – no, not a wellness gimmick – could be the simplest way to eat better, boost your gut and still enjoy your food

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6 d. ago Experts say never eat this healthy food 'more than once a week'

The NHS says too much of it in any form could lead to bone fractures

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7 d. ago Sex Pistols legend loves to eat infamous farting food 'because they're so cheap'

Sex Pistols front man John Lydon has divulged that his love of the guff-producing Brussels sprouts comes from growing up so poor he once had to share a tin of soup between his brother and his parents

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9 d. ago Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with itSamantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall from Baghdad back gardens. Yet when she asks for it in London’s Iraqi shops, she’s met only with blank looks. It took much effort for her to find the English name for the nabug – the Christ’s thorn jujube – and even then she’s unable to source seeds online. Eventually an Iraqi Muslim friend brings her a bag of the fruits. She shares them with her mother, who lights up: “It’s nabug!”. She tells her grandson she hasn’t eaten one in 50 years, and despite wanting a Haribo, he joins his grandmother and mother in enjoying the taste, “like a cross between an apricot and a date”.This story in Ellis’s memoir is, like the book itself, about many things – loss, the distance between generations, nostalgia for a place one has never been, and the power of food to evoke memory – but perhaps most fundam...

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1 week ago Endocrinologist says eat one food often to cut heart attack risk

The expert shared his views on TikTok, highlighting a surprising food group for its potential heart health perks

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1 week ago Food hall opens soft play so adults can eat street food and drink cocktails while children play

This new adventure soft play is perfect for adults and children

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2 w. ago Your cravings may be trying to tell you something about your body... here's what you should actually be eating

You know the feeling when you just can't stop thinking about a warm chocolate chip cookie? Or maybe you've been obsessing over a fat, juicy burger?

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2 w. ago PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked onlineA leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation.The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Aldi issues ‘do not eat’ warning for popular food item which could make shoppers ill

The store has issued an urgent recall over allergy concerns

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2 w. ago ‘Unfailing ability to cheer me up’: why The Rebel is my feelgood movie

The next entry in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watches is a look back to the 1961 Tony Hancock comedyFor me, memorable and/or uplifting film experiences tend to be around individual moments – the resurrection scene in The Matrix for example, or Dizzy’s “I got to have you” in Starship Troopers. (Do either really hold a candle to Mel Brooks’s A Little Piece of Poland number in the To Be Or Not to Be remake? The jury is still out.) But without wanting to sound like either a retro bore or a they-don’t-make-’em-like-they-used-to fuddy-duddy, I turn to Tony Hancock’s yuk-heavy feature vehicle from 1961 for its unfailing ability to cheer me up.I think I must have first watched it in the 1980s on TV, after my dad solemnly recited one of the film’s great moments, when Hancock offers a hunk of cheese to a blue-lipsticked beatnik Nanette Newman and says, with a sort of slack-jawed terror: “You do eat food?” Newman, as it happens, is perhaps The Rebel’s most amazing si...

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3 w. ago The one type of food young people should eat to reduce their risk of bowel cancer

Research from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has shown bowel cancer is increasing in younger adults, with one in every 20 bowel cancer cases happening in people under 50

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3 w. ago ‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?

Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi Jewish food of her ancestors. Unfortunately, he had other ideas My family takes food very seriously. So seriously that when my mother’s family left Iraq in 1971, limited to 20kg of luggage each, they found room for not one but two rolling pins. The truth is that, having used the rolling pins, I think they were right. Born in England, I grew up on my father’s stories, too, of going to a Baghdad street stall to buy hot samoon, Iraqi bread shaped like a teardrop, with a puffy middle and a crunchy crust, with amba (mango pickle) oozing out of it. But he left Baghdad even earlier, in 1951, in a mass airlift along with most of Iraq’s Jews. I grew up in Britain, homesick for a place I’ve never been to, and will probably never see. There are now just three Jews left in Iraq.Scattered across the ...

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3 w. ago ‘This is ideal for them’: business is booming for Birmingham’s ‘rat king’

The Guardian joins a pest controller on the city’s streets as residents fear a rise in rodents during bin workers’ strikes“They’re not fussy,” said Martin Curry, describing the far from epicurean appetites of the scurrying rodents that the residents of Birmingham fear could flood the streets of their city.“Rats all have their own personal tastes but if food is scarce they’ll eat anything,” he said. Curry, who has been called the “rat king” locally, runs MC Environmental Pest Control. He has been on the frontline of stamping out the rodent threat amid a weeks-long bin strike that has caused bins to pile up on Birmingham’s streets. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Voucher code will get you £8 off a Just Eat order this April

The offer covers restaurant orders this month

Economics

3 w. ago If you get a boat to this pub you'll be able to eat the best BBQ food in Wales

Feast will bring their fire-cooked food to Wales' best pub 2024

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3 w. ago Sainsbury's urgently recalls Taste the Difference chocolate bar as it may contain metal

The Food Standards Agency deems the product ‘unsafe to eat’. Here’s what to do if you’ve bought it

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3 w. ago Runner eyes record for fastest London Marathon in traffic cone suit

Runner eyes record for fastest London Marathon in traffic cone suit  Evening Standard

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3 w. ago Runner aims to break record for fastest London Marathon run in traffic cone suit

Michael Wiggins aims to complete his 18th London Marathon run in three hours and 15 minutes.

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