The macrobiotic diet replaces simple carbohydrates with more complex, slower-burning ones like brown rice, quinoa, barley and millet.  These complex carbs release a continuous stream of glucose into the blood at a rate of about two calories per minute whereas the sugar from a chocolate bar burns significantly more quickly, releasing thirty or more calories […]

Vintage Welsh Lemonade 1 lemon 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1/2 pint water sugar Squeeze the lemon juice into the water and add sugar to taste.  Add the bicarbonate of soda, stir and serve immediately. From Customs and Cooking From Wales by Sian Llewellyn Published by Celtic Educational (services) Ltd. Swansee First published 1974