🗞 Gluten Free Tim Tam's have arrived | 3-2-1

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The Bircher Bar Weekly 3-2-1 is here to be interesting, educational, actionable and rewarding to you - our readers.

The goal is to pack in a bunch of great articles, recipes, new product ideas and giveaways in a fun and entertaining way - so much so that when you're finished reading it, you're equal parts devastated it's over and uncomfortably excited for the next one.

It's our job to put this together as best we can and your job to let us know if we hit the mark.

Let's go.

Highlights this week:

• Gluten-Free Tim Tams have arrived! 😃 

• Plant-based robots might save your life one day 🤖 

• One of the best protein bars money can buy 😎 

Our newsletter partner this week:

Before we get going, this is where we put some of our other favourite reads 👇 🗞 Give them a quick look - you might love them too ✅ 

3x interesting articles we've found:

No surprises here… 😬

It should come as no surprise at this point that processed foods aren’t all that good for us 😞 And this study gives us a few specific data-driven details about it…

Researchers based in the UK studied 173,889 participants to uncover the effects of excess ‘Ultra-Processed Food’ consumption on a range of different biomarkers related to liver health.

In short - the study found that excess UPF consumption can elevate the risks of NAFLD, hepatic cirrhosis or fibrosis, severe hepatic illnesses, and alter serological biomarkers 😬 

Again, no real surprises I guess but it’s interesting to see some of the data come out as to exactly how these ‘foods’ can negatively impact large populations of people

Get all of the nitty-gritty study details👇

Speaking of Ultra-Processed Foods… 😍

Gluten-Free Tim Tams are now a thing! 🔥 

For everyone who has been denied this iconic Australian biscuit for years now due to its glutinous load - it’s time to rejoice, your time is now! 🎉 

Costing a good whack more than your regular Tim Tam’s 💴 - the GF version is apparently starting to roll out at most of the major supermarkets in limited quantities, so keep your eyes sharp if this has you excited 👀 

If you aren’t from Australia and are wondering ‘Who’s Tim Tam?’ 🧐 , do yourself a favour and do what it takes to get your hands on a pack 🦹‍♀️

But remember, as excited as you may be - keep a limit on your Tim Tam intake as they’d most definitely qualify as an Ultra-Processed Food 😳 

Plant-based robots might save your life one day 🤖🌱  

A.I. might be here to take your jobs, but robots are also here to keep you alive!

A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo are working on smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots 🤯 

It’s all still very much in the prototype phase - but the research team has shown that they can move through confined and flooded environments, like the human body, and deliver delicate and light cargo, such as cells or tissues, to a target position 🎯 youtube

The robots are based on plant materials and are both bio-compatible and non-toxic, however, the next key step according to the research team is to figure out how to shrink them down small enough so they can operate at sub-millimetre scale 🐜 … sounds to me like they probably need to watch this.

With all the doom and gloom surrounding A.I. - it’s always nice to get a feel-good robot story to finish off the week 🤖 ✅ 

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It’s Time To Hear From You! 🫵

Tim Tam’s are up there with Vegemite 🤤 and Fosters 🤢 when it comes to iconic Australian food and drink items.

They are a far cry from a health food, but that’s not the point - when you’re after a choccy bikkie, a salad just won’t cut it 🥬 

Well, so I think so - but what about you? 🫵

This week’s question is for the The Bircher Bar reader is 👇 

Last Weeks Results:

Last week we asked you: ‘Do You Feel Like Your Work-Related Stress / Anxiety Levels Have Increased Over The Last Year?’

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬆️ Yep - definitely feeling a bit more of it nowadays

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬇️ No - I actually feel less work stress than a year ago!

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟰 Much the same, haven't noticed a change

We have a 50:50 split between ‘more stressed’ and ‘much the same’ with none of us putting our hand up for ‘less stressed’! Hopefully, a relaxing Xmas break will out a few of us in the less stressed category…

2 'easy eats' you can make this week

1x epic product find this week:

As good a protein bar as you’ll find 💪

Protein bars are a great way to get a good hit of protein to your body after a workout, or to simply tide you over in between meals.

 If they are a quality protein bar that is…

Well, in my opinion - the True Protein Bar is one of the best I’ve tried.

• Great taste

• Great texture

• Up to 17g of protein per bar and a low relative sugar content

• Natural ingredients

• Great company

If you’ve been feeling like there’s a hole in your snacking schedule, or you simply want to try something new - you should definitely check them out 👇

Help Us Grow & Score Yourself Some Epic Freebies!

The long-awaited Bircher Bar referral program is FINALLY LIVE! 🙌 

So - how does it work?? Well - it’s as easy as:

1. Share us with some of your friends and family who you think might like us as much as you do

2. Get rewarded with products that I already know you love for everyone you send our way!

Everyone wins! 😃 

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That’s a wrap 👉 🌯 

As always - we try to make this the most valuable newsletter available in the health, wellness, lifestyle and science space - so I truly hope you've gotten something from it.

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Talk Soon!

Darce 😊