Glenfield Country Market is thriving!

Pay us a visit Friday morning!

THE GLENFIELD Country Market is a thriving weekly event. Producers cook, craft and grow and display their wares at this popular market each Friday in St Peter’s Church Centre, Glenfield (LE3 8DP) from 9am-11am.

We held our Annual Shareholders Meeting in March and we were able to report that The Glenfield Market continues to enjoy steady sales with the support of our customers.

We also held a successful Craft Fair in Groby Village Hall earlier this month and this gave us the chance to broaden our audience and also help to showcase the talents of other local crafters. It was a friendly and welcoming occasion and we have seen some new customers to the market as a result.

We continue to offer good value for money across the craft, bakes and preserves and plants stalls. All of the items for sale are made/grown by our producers, adhering to detailed and appropriate guidelines to ensure safety and good quality goods.

Why don’t you give us a try? It’s a friendly, informal and free event and we will be very happy to see you. There are refreshments available as well as the wide range of hand-crafted goods to buy and you will be spoiled for choice! We take card payments to make your shopping experience even better! We suggest you also come early to see the full range of products and to bag the best bargains!

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Thank you.

Ruth Lane (Secretary for Glenfield Country Market)

Rubbed some herbs in my eye accidentally last night when I was cooking.

I’m parsley sighted now…

Some popular health myths debunked

Did you hear about the racing milk bottle? It’s pasteurised before you know it

THE BEST WAYS of staying fit and healthy may be different from what you thought. Here are some fitness dictats which were originally based more on marketing than on science.

Walk 10,000 steps a day

I went to the doctors and he said: “Don’t eat anything fatty.”

I said: “What, like burgers?” He said: “No fatty, just don’t eat anything.”

Did you hear about the noodle pretending he was spaghetti? He’s an impasta

This goal has been a popular mantra for years, and it has even been adopted by the World Health Organisation. But the number was chosen arbitrarily in a Japanese boardroom in the 1960s. The company, Yamasa, simply dreamt up the figure in its effort to promote the world’s first step counter, ahead of the Tokyo 1964 Olympics. Instead, recent studies, including one at the University of Alabama, have found that taking between just 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day may be fine. And even if you take far less than that, then just adding an extra 500 steps a day will bring you significant health benefits. Research does suggest that it is not a great idea to take less than 5,000 steps a day.

Five a day

This encouragement to eat daily fruit and veg came from the UK government in the late 1980s, and it is probably the bestknown piece of public health advice that we have.

I’ve lost some weight by wearing bread on my head.

It’s a new loaf hat diet I’m trying

I have a phobia of German sausages. I fear the wurst

The Indian restaurant I work for is so secretive, I had to sign a legal agreement that I wouldn’t share the flatbread recipe. It’s their standard naan disclosure agreement

My wife rearranged the labels on my spice rack.

Haven’t confronted her yet but the thyme is cumin

I wrote a song about a tortilla. Well actually, it’s more of a wrap

But recent studies suggest that five a day is unlikely to be enough. Scientists at Imperial College London suggest it is more like seven or ten helpings a day, if you are to get all the nutrients and fibre that you need. One scientist at the University of Leeds says there needs to be a push for people to make dietary fibre the majority of their daily diet, rather than processed foods.

You need eight hours sleep

This notion goes back to Victorian times! During the industrial revolution, it was thought that the best daily regime was eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, and eight hours rest.

But in fact, modern studies have found that the amount of sleep you need is highly individualised. Some people get along fine on less than six hours, while others need ten hours.

Two litres of water a day

For decades, the advice has been to drink two litres of water a day, or about eight glasses. But our fluid requirements vary, depending on exercise, the weather, climate, and our age. You may need as many as six, or as little as one. For, according to a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “a lot of your water comes from the food you eat.”

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

This advice began to be spread in the 1920s, when cereal companies were running marketing campaigns to get people to eat their products for breakfast.

But nutrition experts point out that breakfast is only good for you if you eat the right kind of foods. Highly processed foods and a large sugar content is likely to do you more harm than good.

2,000 calories a day

The NHS recommends a daily calorie intake of 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for men.

But your actual calorie needs depend on your age, gender, height, weight and physical activities levels. Some of us need to eat much less, and some of us need to eat more.