Nicola Kent

6. The food pyramid is built on flawed science. A carbohydrate base spikes blood glucose repeatedly, drives insulin dysregulation, promotes systemic inflammation, and makes caloric overconsumption almost inevitable.

3. Eggs do not meaningfully raise your cholesterol. Your liver produces the majority of circulating cholesterol. When dietary intake rises, endogenous production falls to compensate. Eggs also deliver a dense profile of fat-soluble nutrients.

Steak contains: - B vitamins that drive metabolism - Minerals and fat that support hormone production - Nutrients simply unavailable in a vegan diet High protein, relatively low calorie, and beneficial for gut health. Does it cause cancer? No.

2. The sun is not your primary skin cancer risk. Many sunscreens may be. Extreme, unprotected overexposure is the real variable. Many sunscreen formulas contain chemical compounds research has linked to cellular damage.

An updated pedigree for Constitution River who kept on well to land the Group 1 Coral Eclipse @Sandownpark The son of Wootton Bassett was bred by Lg Bloodstock out of Chuppy, a Le Havre sister to the outstanding Wonderful Tonight @ChrisWChrysalis . The colt was purchased by MV Magnier for €400,000 at the 2024 @InfoArqana August Yearling Sale where he was consigned by @HCadran.

Cows & Horses & a bit in between @IFAmedia @DeptAgriculture @IrishTimes x.com/i/status/20728…

A woman’s due date is one of the biggest scams in medicine. The average baby is born anywhere from 37 weeks to 42 weeks - which that is skewed itself because of a high induction rate. The one day due date leaves women feeling like they are somehow “overdue” and it’s an easy sell for hospitals to schedule them for inductions or c-sections. More disturbing, women are now being asked at 39 weeks to schedule an induction. We don’t act this way with any other mammal, we let nature take its course. Unless there is a medical emergency, let the baby come when they are ready!

"He was her 11th foal, so it shows you what an eternal dreamer can do because most people wouldn't keep going for 11 foals to get the black-type horse." Patience is virtue for Mickley's Richard Kent as Tokaido rewards with Group 3 breakthrough Read more here 👉 bit.ly/44HohSc

"We should stop farming cattle to save the Amazon from soy." Before you swing that one around, have a look at where the world's soy actually goes. The Oxford food researchers did, and the breakdown is not what the documentary implied. 37% is fed to chickens. Around 20% goes to pigs. 6% goes to farmed fish. And beef and dairy cattle, the animals on the poster, take 2%. Two per cent. The cow you have been told is eating the Amazon accounts for tuppence in every pound of the world's soy. The bird in your supermarket nuggets eats nearly twenty times more of it than she does. It gets better. A soybean is crushed into two things at once, meal and oil, and the oil is a prize in its own right. It fills the fryers, floods the ultra-processed aisle, and increasingly it does not get eaten at all. Close to half of America's soybean oil is now burned in fuel tanks as biodiesel, wearing a green halo while the forest that grew it does not. And the British cow being lectured about all this spends her life on grass and hay, off hillsides where no soy has ever grown and no crop ever could. Tofu, soy milk and edamame, for the record, take 7% of the world's crop, so even the vegans are only modest customers. So the field was cleared to feed the chicken shed, the frying vat and the fuel tank. And the animal standing on a Welsh hill eating rain-fed grass got the blame, because she was easier to film.

🔥 Dual winner Le Citadin - sold for €230,000 - was one of the most expensive horses sold at the @InfoArqana Summer Sale, which mirrored the red-hot trade at the premier store sales in Ireland over the past few weeks. @BrianSheerin91 has the recap. thoroughbreddailynews.com/cromwell-vows-…

It is a grey morning in 2026. The cows go in for milking at half past five, the same as every morning for forty years. This is the last time. The herd is a hundred and twenty Friesians. The farmer knows most of them by sight, some by name, and a few by the particular trouble they cause. His father built the parlour. His grandfather bought the first of the land. He gets forty-four pence a litre for the milk. Two miles away the same milk sells for seventy-two. The maths stopped working three years ago, and he has been farming on his overdraft and his stubbornness ever since. His father died in the winter. The inheritance tax bill that landed this spring, calculated on land valued by buyers who want it for carbon and have never kept an animal, is more money than the farm has cleared in a decade. There is no vet within forty minutes any more. The young ones do cats in the town, and the last large-animal practice for miles cut its farm work last year. He cannot find anyone to take it on. His son saw all of this coming and trained as an engineer, and he does not blame him. So the cows are sold. The herd that took three generations to build is gone by Friday, loaded into a single line of lorries. The parlour falls silent for the first time since 1985. The land is bought by a fund that plants it with trees, to offset the emissions of people he will never meet. The barn becomes a holiday let. And a long way off, a ship is already loaded with the milk that used to come from his field, bound for a country that decided, one reasonable policy at a time, that it would rather not bother making its own.

☀️𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞 - 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐈 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 🔹Lot 413 - NEPTUNE DRAGONESS Impressive winner on her hurdling debut. 🔹lot 431 - CLOTH OF MAI Runner-up on his hurdling debut. 🎟️More info on the Wild Cards ➡️ bit.ly/4vxij21 Summer Sale 🗓️29 June - 1 July 📍Deauville ARQANA, LA COURSE COMMENCE ICI 🇫🇷 📸 NEPTUNE DRAGONESS

Ireland's Hottest Day, 1976. On 29th June 1976, temperatures reaching 32.5 degrees were recorded.

🗣️ "He's a good horse & he's improving. All these Beckford's are machines." Johnny Ward chats to owner Maurice Regan & family following Zenford's win @LimerickRaces

Jeremy Clarkson has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer during the final two episodes of Clarkson’s Farm.💔 Heartbreaking news. The disease was caught early and he has since undergone surgery. Jeremy has left us with the words - "If this is all successful, I'll see you for season six, and if it isn't, I won't". We’re all praying for a full recovery, our thoughts are with all those affected by this awful news. Hold your loved ones close.❤️

Let's go for a walk along the city walls!

Loch Lomond, from the west of Ireland. Wishing Scotland well as they return to the World Cup after 28 years 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Some very poor decisions have been taken by people "industry leaders" who dont understand the work & dedication that goes in to producing, nuturing & training an equine athelete and the hugely positive influences that horseracing brings to people young &old in may ways