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23/2/2016 Article originally published in February 2016 on Tasted Magazine Are gluten-free products actually good for our health or is it just a myth? And are they worth their much higher costs? “I was diagnosed with coeliac disease when I was eight,” says Giulia Tuccari, now 22. “I was still in my Primary School when my daily diet changed drastically and I had to start eating gluten-free products.” Giulia Tuccari is a medical student based in Rome and has been eating gluten-free for the past 14 years of her life.
When Giulia was a child she had no manifest symptoms but she was first diagnosed to have a serious intolerance to gluten thanks to the annual allergy test she used to take. Back then the availability of gluten-free products was considerably limited. “It was quite hard at the beginning to find a replacement to my favourite foods, like pizza and bread,” she says. “But as I grew older the range of gluten-free products started to become wider and wider, especially in the past few years.” Gluten-free products don’t represent a minority niche any longer. According to a study carried out by Mintel in 2015, innovation has come a long way in the last 10 years. Indeed, in 2005 only 2% of the new food products launched on the market were labelled as gluten-free, whereas in 2014 this proportion increased to 10%. For the full article please visit Tasted Magazine 25/6/2015 Article originally published in June 2015 on e-Bulletin In a world in which delivery of news seems to become faster and faster every day, social media has turned out to be one of the best places for news organizations to get content and find news sources in the briefest time.
In the era of the Internet, more and more newspapers rely on social media platforms to monitor not only the news and events around the world, but also to find content and sources to include in their coverage, so that the term user-generated content has entered the mainstream vocabulary. User-generated content is defined by Tech Target as "any published information that an unpaid contributor has provided to a website. The information might be a photo, video, blog or discussion forum post, poll response or comment made through a social media website." For the full article please visit e-Bulletin 3/9/2015 Article originally published in September 2015 on Zero Magazine In 2008 when Wall Street imploded, causing a crisis that was meant to last for more than seven years, Greece became the epicentre of Europe’s debt crisis. Yet it was only in 2009 that Europe - and later the rest of the world - started to pay close attention to the aridity of the Greek economy that for years had been understating its deficit figures. The moment European leaders realised the gravitas of the situation, Greece was imposed not to borrow in the financial market anymore. The country was soon veering towards a bankruptcy that could cause a new and probably bigger financial crisis that would have dragged and probably given the final blow to the Eurozone. To avoid such events, the so-called troika, that is to say the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Commission, issued two international bailouts for Greece for a total of more than €240billion. However, the bailouts came with harsh conditions, among which a harsh austerity that was aimed at deeply cutting budgets and consistently increasing taxes. Although the bailouts were supposed to turn the Greek crisis into a stable financial situation and alleviate the market fears of a Eurozone crack down, in five years the Greek economy shrunk by a quarter and unemployment went up to 25%.
For the full article please visit Zero Magazine 9/7/2014 Article originally published in July 2014 on Sportsvibe.co.uk It was a massacre. Nothing more, nothing less. Brazil lost their pride and their face in the attempt to heal a wound opened 64 years ago, a wound called Maracanazo.
Despite (and thankfully) not ending in tragedy like in 1950, this time the defeat is even louder and more humiliating. Never, in the history of the World Cup, have a top-ranked team such as Brazil conceded seven goals in a semi-final, never have Brazil let in five goals in 30 minutes and four in seven minutes, never have so many people cried at a stadium, their faces static, the desperation in their eyes. Germany win 7-1, reaching the final and leaving Brazil to face their fears and weaknesses, down on their knees on the grass of Belo Horizonte, but ironically there was nothing ‘Belo’ to celebrate. It was a spectacular game, there is no denying that. Non-Brazil fans probably had the night of their lives but while Germany were celebrating their solidity, ‘consistency’ and their ability to turn into such cold killers, a question came to mind: “was it really necessary?” For the full article please visit Sportsvibe.co.uk 25/6/2014 Article originally published in June 2014 on Sportsvibe.co.uk As with every talented athlete, Kristian Thomas is an ambitious gymnast looking to win as many medals as he can for himself and his team.
The Olympics team bronze medal and the individual World Championships bronze of last year are not enough for the Wolverhampton gymnast, who is now setting his high targets for the next Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. “I’d like to think that we could win a team gold medal and also individually I’d like to be hopeful I will make it to the vaults, high bar and possibly floor as well. Then if I can do that, I could make the final.” As they take place every four years, the Commonwealth Games are one of the most awaited sports events on the calendar and everyone’s hopes are high despite the strong pressure. “We hope that in anyone’s game we can win some individual medals for team England,” says Thomas confidently. For the full article please visit Sportsvibe.co.uk 13/6/2014 Article originally published in June 2014 on Sportsvibe.co.uk It’s true what they say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and that there couldn’t be success without failure. Dave Attwood, the Bath and England lock, experienced it in his own skin.
“As a child everyone grows up and thinks of playing for England and playing at Twickenham and playing against the All Blacks, but that kind of got dashed to me when I was 15 or 16. “At that moment I was involved in the academy process of professional rugby club and I have been told that they never thought I would make it.” Ten years later, Attwood plays lock for Bath Rugby and in 2010 he made his debut with the senior England national team. For the full article please visit Sportsvibe.co.uk Chris Furber On His Challenge As National Performance Director For British Para-Swimming (Interview)6/9/2014 9/6/2014 Article originally published in June 2014 on Sportsvibe.co.uk “I think that the beauty of Para-swimming is that you can do it anyway. You don’t need any special equipment, you don’t need anything particularly to get you into the sport, it’s just getting to your local swimming pool where there would be a coach or someone who can teach you to swim and you’re getting yourself swimming. That’s the most important thing.”
Chris Furber the National Performance Director for Para-Swimming, chooses these words to describe the sport he is passionate about - despite it not being the only one - and that he’s trying to improve every year. Having spent 13 years at British cycling as the lead coach of the GB team for two Paralympics games, Furber decided it was time for him to take up a challenge and put himself into something new. It required the same amount of courage that he has always asked his athletes to show. For the full article please visit Sportsvibe.co.uk |
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