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Foods for a Healthy Desi Heart — Internet

Getting healthy and maintaining a healthy heart is very important for Desi people. Especially, those living in Western countries. We look at how to make some changes to your food which can help you develop a healthier lifestyle.

South Asian health related to diet is frequently in the news. The obesity epidemic is on the increase and now even making its way to India, where reports of obesity in the upper classes is becoming a problem due to higher consumption of junk food compared to lower social classes.

Seasick Steve — Internet

Could there be a more unlikely star than Seasick Steve? Sean O'Hagan meets a true American primitive back on his old stomping grounds in Tennessee and Mississippi

What you need to know about oils and fats — Magazine

What you need to know about oils and fats

Oils and fats are an essential part of our lives.

Gram for gram, fats are the most efficient source of food energy. Each gram of fat provides nine calories of energy, compared with four calories pergram of carbohydrates and proteins. And herein lies one of the problems in our mindset towards fats.

Fats have many functions; they are not limited to providing energy and protecting organs; if we consume no fat at all, we will short-circuit our body’s natural system for transporting vitamins and regulating cholesterol levels. Children should not have the fat in their diets restricted, since fat supplies them with linoleic acid, which helps them grow properly.

When we eat fat, our body shuttles lipids into cell membranes where they bind to phosphates. These are called phospholipids. Phospholipids make up the barrier between the inside and outside of the cells. Phospholipids are also important because they’re used to make hormone-like molecules called eicosanoids.

Win a trip for two to glorious Goa... — Internet

Win a trip for two to glorious Goa...

To celebrate the start of Asian Bread Week were giving you the chance to win a spectacular trip for 2 to Goa.

Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/prmts/article-1366146/Win-trip-glorious-Goa-.html#ixzz1HE0eCozk
 

Rob Pruitts flea market at Tate Modern — Internet

Rob Pruitts flea market at Tate Modern

‘A festive reprise of Rob Pruitt’s Christmas and Kwanzaa (an African-American festival) version of the ‘Flea Market’ event, programmed to coincide with the exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World, in which Pruitt also appears....

'My fuel filter was clogged up with kebab fat' — Newspaper

With petrol prices poised to soar again this summer, anyone like me who has already tried to run a car on waste vegetable oil could have much to feel smug about.

BCABA Awards — Internet

Inward investment and the links with India will be crucial for the economy of the West Midlands, Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, head of Warwick Manufacturing Group, told the Black Country Asian Business Association Awards ceremony.

Zee Carnival 2008 — Zee Carnival 2008

All London was set to celebrate India and Indian entertainment last weekend. Similar to the Asian Lifestyle Show in July 2007 now the Zee Carnival was up to present Indian fashion, music, life style, live cooking and lots of Entertainment articles like music CD’s or movie DVD’s much more to a huge amount of guest with or without Asian background.

Interview with The Grocery Trader — Internet

KTC (Edibles) is probably best known to the UK food industry as Britain’s largest independent manufacturer and distributor of oils and fats. The KTC and Sea Isle food brands, which it also markets here, are familiar to Asian and Afro-Caribbean consumers both in the UK and, through KTC’s export arm, in many countries overseas.

Incredible Edibles — Magazine

KTC (Edibles) Limited is Britain's largest independent manufacturer and distributor of oil and fats. The UK’s number one private label supplier to all major retailers, the company was formed in 1971 and incorporated as a private limited company in 1979.

Sales soar at non-HVO ingredients suppliers — Internet

Steps to remove hydrogenated vegetable oils, or Trans fats, from processed foods is providing a cash bonanza to suppliers of the healthier ingredients being used in their place. One, KTC (Edibles), said sales of its non-HVO shortenings and margarine's, designed to replace their HVO counterparts, had soared by more than 250% since the anti-trans fats backlash began last year.

Fab launches golden rum PPS — Internet

A new premium packaged spirit based on Jamaican golden rum is being introduced to the market this summer. Soca is the creation of the Fab Drinks Company and is being marketed in the off-trade by KTC Edibles.

Inside Back Cover Briefs — Internet

SmithKline Beecham has increased its trade marketing team with the addition of Andy Watts as trade marketing manager. Ormeau Bakery has taken on Stella Egan as national accounts manager. Barry James has joined the team at Paulig as national account manager.