13 Nov 2026, 04:26 PM
‘Never thought I’d eat that’: how vegetable prescriptions are helping Britons with diabetes
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WellFed participants in Cornwall report better blood sugar levels with help of free veg boxes, cooking and gardeningThe participants admitted that throughout their life, their food choices had been far from ideal: egg and chips, hearty roasts, raw fry – a Cornish one-pan dish of bacon, potatoes and onions, often fried in lard and once beloved of miners and fishers.But here they were, at a community orchard in the harbourside town of St Ives in south-west Cornwall, massaging Swiss chard (to soften the leaves), dicing carrots, adding lentils into a pot to create a low-GI, high-fibre – and tasty – shepherd’s bake. Continue reading...
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