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Sear briskly for 2-3 minutes on each side season and remove to the oven while you deglaze the pan with the marinade Boil

Sear briskly for 2-3 minutes on each side, season and remove to the oven while you deglaze the pan with the marinade Boil vigorously until it forms a syrupy sauce. Season to taste and strain, before serving immediately with the pheasant breasts.. A refreshing salad that is best served as a starter. This can be adapted for use with blood oranges when they appear. If possible, try and buy the best quality barrel-aged feta for this recipe.2 navel oranges1 red onion, finely sliced into rings170g feta, sliced8-12 black olives, stoned and quartered2 heads white or red chicory2 bunches watercress, trimmed and washed1tbsp orange juice1-2tbsp extra virgin olive oilSalt and freshly ground black pepperCut the top and bottom off the oranges and sit on a chopping board Continue by cutting away the pith and peel of the oranges Slice both oranges into rounds and set aside Prepare the onion, feta and olives Trim the chicory and separate the leaves.

Wash and dry the chicory leaves and place in a bowl with the washed and dried watercress sprigs, onion rings and olives. When you are ready to serve, sprinkle the leaves with some of the excess orange juice, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and drizzle with a little olive oil. Gently toss the leaves so that they are lightly coated in the dressing then divide them between six starter plates. Season the orange slices and slip them in among the salad leaves Finally, add the sliced feta cheese and serve immediately..

The “postcode lottery” of treatment for diabetes, one of Britain’s most widespread diseases, may be about to end with the publication shortly of a government plan to target potential sufferers. The plan will also draw up ways of getting treatment earlier to sufferers to stop them developing potentially fatal secondary illnesses, including kidney failure.The Government is expected to announce plans to investigate whether a targeted system of testing can be introduced for people over 50 who are more likely to develop the illness. The national framework plan, which has taken years to draw up, is expected to stop short of a national screening programme.Charities estimate that treatment of diabetes and resulting complications costs the NHS £5bn a year, or about five per cent of its budget. They have been calling on ministers to pay for more testing to identify sufferers, which they believe could save the NHS billions of pounds a year.Overweight people or those with “junk food” diets are more at risk than those who eat healthily. Asians and people of African and Caribbean origin are also especially susceptible. But many sufferers live with the disease undetected until it becomes so severe they have to be treated in hospital.Ministers privately acknowledge there is inequality of care across the country for diabetes, with some doctors offering tests and information as a matter of routine.Low-income areas are less likely to offer tests for patients because family doctors are overstretched. Charities helping diabetics stress the need for testing and say that type-2 diabetes, which develops as the body becomes more resistant to insulin, can be treated if it is caught early.”There’s evidence to support the theory that early identification will stop complications,” said a spokeswoman for Diabetes UK.

“If you can capture it early, you can prevent terrible problems such as blindness and kidney failure.”Experts predict an epidemic of diabetes with numbers of those affected set to double from the current figure of 1.4 million over the next decade, driven by the rise in obesity.The earlier in life a person becomes obese the greater the risk of their developing diabetes. For the first time in the UK, adult type-2 diabetes, commonly linked with obesity, was reported in four white British children – three girls and a boy aged between 13 and 15 – in February last year.All the children were severely overweight. Type-2 diabetes has until now been diagnosed only in children from ethnic minorities, who are known to be at greater risk.Type-2 diabetes accounts for nine out of 10 cases and is normally seen in people over 40. The age of diagnosis has been falling and increasing numbers of people in their 30s and 20s have been developing the disease recently.The classic kind of diabetes in children is type-1, in which the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas are destroyed. Type-2 diabetes occurs when fat and muscle cells lose their sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that regulates the level of glucose in the blood..