NutriBro.

12/09/2020

Sous-chefing tonight at for and

Good times! Haven’t done an analysis... but I’d say it’s complete, healthy and yummy.

01/09/2020

Stuffing these little beauties. Seasonal stuff in south west France 😋

31/07/2020

Nutrition programs to maximise your biking (Road, Tri, Mountain) www.nutribro.com
📸 🚲 🕶

08/07/2020

Nice to mop up some local ones.

05/06/2020

Scrumping Cherries and Elderflower today. Delish!

14/05/2020

A Nature publication on COVID-19 Anti-Vaxx has shown that the cogent emotion of fear and belief in unfounded posits looks likely to win over rational thinking... Many could die as a result.

For me the cool thing about science is, it doesn’t care what you or I think or feel. The data speak over those anti-science conspirators hellbent on creating chaos, or simply easily influenced by dangerous peers. But data only speaks up when you listen and reach outside the echo chambers which tend to bias our opinions.

The current data on COVID-19, which are friable due to the lack of investment and trust in science on a political and population level, suggest an R transmission rate of around 4 (imperial college), meaning 75% of the population need a vaccine or immunity before the virus stabilises or decreases in case numbers.

The article from Nature has worrying insight on this, by analysing the ‘clusters’ of antivax believers and showing the vast numbers of people reinforcing their confirmatory heuristics which will lead to a dangerous cognitive bias against good healthcare reasoning. This looks likely to drop the number of vaccinations below the requisite percentage.

I would urge you to read the paper linked below, and act by reporting posts of misinformation/fake influential opinion to the social network platform.

Insights into the interactions between pro- and anti-vaccination clusters on Facebook can enable policies and approaches that attempt to interrupt the shift to anti-vaccination views and persuade undecided individuals to adopt a pro-vaccination stance.

03/05/2020

There is light at the end of the tunnel after the storm. May 11th in France and I can start to enjoy this again. It’s been a very very tough 6 weeks for me and made me realise the importance of fresh air and remoteness. If there’s one thing I could pass on to unhappy city folk, it would be to learn a love for the outdoors, fresh air and freedom of the mountains.

01/05/2020

BAKING: Adding raw or germinated yellow pea or faba bean flour to bread....

Cereal chemistry scientists(!) have found (https://doi.org/10.1002/cche.10261) that using pea/bean flour in bread significantly reduces the solvent retention capacity of the bread. Causing less dough stability and elasticity, even when supplemented with wheat-gluten.
The resultant bread had decreased volume, increased crumb-firmness and a smaller number of cells per slice.

However, the overall starch levels were reduced, and protein levels increased. So if you're not a total bread snob, then the addition of 80:20 ratio of wheat to yellow pea flour, reduces the glycemic index and glycemic load of the bread, plus boosts your protein intake, making you feel full for longer.

24/04/2020

FACT*: If kids grow fruit/veg, kids eat fruit/veg.
Tomatoes coming through! 🍅
(*not actually a fact)