No I’m not actually listing them all out here… but it’s a mini pamphlet cookbook that I found this weekend at my parents from 1923, it was my Nana’s. How freaking cool is this!?!?It was put out by the baking powder company… so you used more baking powder and less eggs, great way to save money on eggs I guess I also came home with a box of late 1940’s bake and cookware LOVE!

• Wanted! Low GI fast food choices
• Why it’s time to raise the bar and lower the GI cut-offs for fast foods
• Low carb or low fat for weight loss? The choice is yours if you can stick to it
• Masterchef. The other ‘big M’ and healthy home-cooked meals
• How nutrition health halos trick us into treating
• Will you have a statin with that?

‘If starting tomorrow at noon, we all went into Taco Bell and Burger King and ordered only salads, their menus would change faster than you can say Lite Italian’ writes Prof Brian Wansink in Mindless Eating. ‘Within a year, people would be able to eat a Taco Salad Bell any time they wanted to make a run for the border. Within another year there would be another Broccoli King … No food company is in the business to make us fat. They’re in the business to sell us food. If we want fattening food to mindlessly eat, companies will fix it. But they will also fix us healthy food we can mindfully eat if they can profitably do so.’

Vote with your feet. It’s up to us, not governments and self-appointed nutrition nannies. If we all demand healthy low GI fast food options, you can be sure the food companies will supply them. Our job is to make it profitable for them to do so. That means we have to order them and not the tempting high calorie, high fat, high GI alternatives. So here’s to great tasting baked ‘fries’ or wedges made with lower GI potatoes, lean meat burgers on really grainy low GI buns and curries and stir fries served with lower GI rices.

Good eating, good health and good reading.

Editor: Philippa Sandall

Web management and design: Alan Barclay, PhD

The perfect cookie to dunk in a cold glass of milk. These are a super crisp melt in your mouth kind of cookie. It wasn’t until I brought some into work that I realized my gluten free coworker could actually have one too! (ook I’m going to full admit it, I just typed GLUEten… HAHAHA oh yeah I know how to spell…)I made a batch of these up for our fix it guy. Gotta keep the fix it guy happy

Whenever I hear the word "breakfast pizza" I think of my buddy Sean… once maybe 4 years ago he mentioned picking up one to bring to work… because he’s the total mayor of the town and knows/ loves everyone. I remember making fun of him because of this… and now whenever I hear/see breakfast pizza… I think Sean!!OK not that that had anything to do with this post… just felt like sharing

Real quick… if you signed up for the jam exchange check your email, you should have your partner sent to you! If for some reason you didn’t get an email. Email me ASAP stephchows at gmail.com!So Jeanne is actually two inches taller than me… I’m just sitting up higher As I said Monday, we made cake on our camping trip, and it was delicious!! Don’t get me wrong, it was boxed cake mix, I’m not

The First Ulverston Breastfeeding Festival (16 – 22 August) was a thoroughly enjoyable event and one that deserves to grow. The town of Ulverston, close to the coast on the south side of the Lake District, is a delightful setting. I spoke on Friday in the Parish Church Hall, after a showing of the UNICEF Philippines film, Formula for Disaster. Many thanks to Jo Dawson for the invitation and for the hard work she put in with help from friends and family to make the event a reality. I really hope it becomes part of the calendar and inspires others in the UK and elsewhere.

There are links to the film and some of the information included in my presentation below, along with other news from the festival. My weekend at the festival was an opportunity to encourage people to email Nestlé over its latest baby milk marketing strategy (it is claiming its formula ‘protects’ babies, despite the fact that babies fed on formula are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die). Before reading on, take a minute to email Nestlé by clicking here (will open in a new window).

There were events throughout the week, including workshops and talks on baby-led weaning, milk banking, breastfeeding information for grandparents and the Breastfeeding Manifesto. There was a breastfeeding fair on the Saturday in the Coronation Hall, with stalls by Baby Milk Action and other organisations involved. Sedleigh played his song ‘Every Drop Counts’ and other music outside the hall – close to statues of Ulverston son, Stan Laurel, and his partner in comedy, Oliver Hardy.

The Madonna and Child Project is running until 28 August, an exhibition of beautiful, iconic mother and baby portrait prints with associated birth stories, by Canadian artist Kate Hansen.

At the beginning of the week, breastfeeding mothers gathered for the Big Breastfeeding Picture, which helped to gain coverage in the local media. There were various café events during the week as well, for a more informal chat over tea, coffee and cake or something more substantial. On Sunday morning, before the final café gathering, some of us climbed Hoad Hill, for amazing views over Morecombe Bay towards Blackpool on one side, the peaks of the Lake District on the other and in the far distance, the peaks of Yorkshire.

Ulverston has a series of festivals throughout the year, and anyone entering the town could not miss the signs saying the current one was The Breastfeeding Festival.

So why not plan a visit to the area next August to coincide with the Festival? Windermere and Coniston lakes are very close by with extensive tourist facilities and Ulverston itself offers camping, B&B and hotel accommodation. For a taste of what to expect, take a look at this year’s programme: http://www.thebreastfeedingfestival.btik.com/p_People.ikml

You can view the film about infant feeding in the Philippines online by going to: http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2007/05/watch-film-from-philippines-here.htm.

In my talk I provided an update on what happened since the film. You can find much of the information here.

I then spoke about the situation in the UK. Here’s a youtube clip I put together for the launch of the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN last year, which has some of the information.

Click here to sign the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN petition.

You can the text of a similar talk, with the powerpoint presentation, here:
http://info.babymilkaction.org/news/campaignblog070310

Gillian Weaver, Chair of the UK Association of Milk Banking, told me about this great clip about a recent fundraising cycle ride by supporter, Steve Haberfield.

You can hear more of the song Every Drop Counts, by Sedleigh below. Sedleigh performed this and other songs live outside the Coronation Hall and at one of Gillian’s talks. If you make a donation to the work of UKAMB, you will be sent the full song. See: http://www.ukamb.org/edc/index.html

Remember you can find news of forthcoming events on our diary dates page and we’ll post up the dates for the Ulverston Breastfeeding Festival 2011 event when we have them and hope we can take part once again.

The average couple has sex 96 times to get pregnant a new study by First Response has revealed.

It takes a woman just six months to conceive her first child, but is having to ‘do the deed’ over four times a week. The poll of 3000 mothers was commissioned by family planning brand First Response which also revealed that two thirds of women conceived much quicker than they expected.

One in 10 women have been so eager to get pregnant they have called their husband home from work when they were ovulating. And a further, pushy 10 per cent said they then jumped on their other half as soon as he walked through the door.

Despite this, 70 per cent of those polled said they wanted their baby to be conceived during a loving and spontaneous sex session rather than going through the mechanics. In order to woo their other half, a persistent 35 per cent of girls said they made more effort to look sexy when trying for a baby.

But it’s not all fun and games – nearly a quarter of women admitted that sex got really boring when trying to start a family, while 11 per cent of men complained at the amount of sex their wife or girlfriend was demanding and admitted to feeling completely used.

First Response said: ‘’Having sex 96 times before falling pregnant does sound rather a lot, but as they say practice makes perfect. However, for those not trying to conceive it’s very important to remember that many couples may also fall pregnant first time so if you are not trying for a baby please still use the necessary precautions.‘’Trying for a baby is a very exciting time for a couple and many try to have sex at every opportunity in order to get pregnant. Couples who are having problems conceiving can visit www.tellsyoufirst.co.uk for practical expert advice and handy tools by London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston to help set you on the right path

Some women are so eager to find out the happy news more than one in 20 women did a pregnancy test in work and four per cent used a testing kit in the public toilets at the shops.

First Response spokesperson added: ‘’It’s an extremely anxious time and many women want to find out whether they are expecting a child as soon as possible.”

The First Response Early Results Pregnancy Test is the only test in the UK that can accurately let you know if you’re pregnant up to six days before a missed period – two days before other at-home tests. This test is accurate and simple to use and the sooner you discover you are pregnant, the sooner you can begin to make the lifestyle changes required to give you the best head start to a healthy and happy pregnancy.

Another big surprise was that as much as nearly one in 10 females told their parents before telling their partner that they were expecting a child.

First Response

Nutritionists London

So I went camping this weekend with my bud Jeanne. It was awesome. We made cake over the camp fire… yeah you read that right. But I’m too tired to type it up tonight… so instead you get me jumping off of a 12 foot rock we kayaked out to.I don’t know what you are talking about I’m not scared…OMG what am I doing!!!!too late now!glug glug glugI was scared out of my brains… but I did it! woo

We have over 30 people signed up for the jam exchange this year!! Thanks everyone for joining in!!! To celebrate the imminent arrival of lots of jam I thought I’d share this recipe with you. It’s made with sucanat from wholesome sweeteners and it’s delicious!The only negative to using sucanat in this recipe is it changes the beautiful yellow/orange color of the jam to a more brownish color… but

I spoke at the Ulverton Breastfeeding Festival yesterday evening and Gillian Weaver, Chair of the UK Association of Milk Banking, told me about this great clip. Gillian is speaking at events today (21 August). Details on the Breastfeeding Festival website at: http://www.thebreastfeedingfestival.btik.com/

You can hear more of the song Every Drop Counts, by Sedleigh below. Sedleigh is performing at various venues around Ulverton.

Remember you can find news of forthcoming events on our diary dates page.