Vegan cardiologist Dr Heather Shenkman The size of an adult fist, your heart pumps blood around your body, and basically keeps you alive. Beating over 100,000 times a day, a healthy heartbeat is usually around 60 to 100 minutes (resting) while babies have much faster heartbeats (and athletes usually much slower heartbeats). The sound of…
Enjoy a Wonderful Wildlife Walk
Who needs TV, when you can go on a walk to view our wonderful wildlife? Of course, that’s all it should be (watching from afar, and not disturbing the beautiful creatures that share our green and pleasant land). But whether it’s a quick stroll through an urban forest or a more leisurely longer pursuit in…
The Etiquette of English Queuing!
Rob Thom The Cambridge Dictionary defines queuing as ‘a line of people (usually standing, waiting for something). There are not many countries that queue as well as England! One joker said that we love to queue so much, we’ll first join a queue – then ask what it’s for afterwards! If you’ve ever been abroad,…
Start Your Own Community Gardnen
A community garden is a shared space where a few experts plan and design a garden (often on unused land so is free to rent), then volunteers get together and turn it into a beautiful public space, often to grow free food. In these austere times of high food and energy prices, community gardens are…
The Best One-Pot Vegan Recipe Books
If you’re one of those people who likes to cook (but gets put off by the thought of all the washing-up afterwards), then these books are for you! All using everyday simple affordable ingredients that you can buy from any store, one-pot meals are also great for people who like simple home-cooked food, without all…