Spring Nutrition
NEW : Spring Nutrition Column with Recipes and Shopping List
Indian Adventures: The Art of Ayurveda
I’m on a global search to unveil the world’s secrets to wellbeing. I want to find out how we can all live healthier, more connected lives. To start my search, I’ve come all the way to India. When arriving in India, it’s difficult to envisage how such a densely populated and heavily polluted country could [...]
A Mindful Approach to New Year Resolutions
With Christmas done and dusted, it's time to turn our attention to the impending new year... and those dreaded resolutions! After the indulgence of the festive season, it's no surprise so many of us resolve to get fit and healthy in the new year. But if you find yourself struggling to keep your new year's [...]
Do This to Not Gain Weight During the Festive Period
It’s that time of year where we celebrate and overindulge more than any other time of the year. The office parties, the family get-togethers, the flow of mulled wine heralds a period where we will spend over £21 billion on presents, parties, pantos and festive food. In the end, all these things are worth it [...]
Centenarian Wellbeing: Living My Life the Okinawan Way Part 1
I LOVE healthy food, what more can I say? It’s a passion of mine that has grown immensely over the last ten years, a passion from which I have improved my own health, the health of my family and have formed a successful career. I now run a private nutrition clinic, write a nutrition column [...]
The Raw Food Revolution: Fact or Fad?
Load up Instagram and search for hashtags such as #cleaneats and you’ll unearth a wealth of enticingly colourful dishes… and many of them will be made from entirely raw ingredients. Raw food diets are probably the natural next step in our quest for pure, wholesome eating. Many of us have already shunned gluten, sugar, dairy [...]
Food Myths – True or False
If asked to reflect upon our now sepia-toned childhood I’m sure many of us would be able to recall the various ways our parents would woo us into eating healthily. Perhaps the seductive promise that eating carrots would provide remarkable night vision, chomping down spinach would result in Popeye’s super heroic strength, or quite simply, [...]
The Power of Tea
With the freedom of being able to choose the subject upon which I write each week, I am invariably able to cover subjects that I feel passionate about. The virtual document you see before your very eyes is certainly no exception. Indeed, you may have guessed by the title that, like millions of others in [...]