It is sometimes very profitable to go back to The Greats to crystalise our thinking about something new. This year, in writing about longevity, I have been struck by the paucity of thinking about a philosophical approach to old age. Gerontologists know a lot about the body as it ages, but we sometimes forget that […]
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All day, every day, our cells are performing a metabolic balancing act. In fact, every cell, in every living thing, performs the same task. Nature is wonderful. Our metabolic rate isn’t regulated by just one system. The human body possesses trillions of metabolic clocks, ticking away within every single cell in the body. Each cell
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Details See Q&A below FILL IN THE DIET QUESTIONNAIRE How it works? You can join the diet at any time, and you will receive the first weeks online tutorial within a week. I generally send them out on a Friday. From then on you will receive a weekly email, with a link to the information.
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Many of my clients ask me how long they should remain on their diets. The fact of the matter is that a reducing diet should be as short as possible. Nobody wants to diet seriously for too long. But there is another type of diet that we should all aspire to, and that is the
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Women’s diets need to change to take account of different needs as we age. In particular we need to re-balance after the metabolic onslaught of menopause. But it is important to see healthy eating as a means to an end and not an end in itself. A healthy diet will give us more energy, it
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The Good Life Part 06: Eating with friends. Does a celebration have to mean excess? PROGRAMME How to survive celebrations and parties ‘Tis the season to be jolly. So now you’ve read through the four basics of healthy eating – breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks – it is time to think about how these basics
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The Good Life Part 05: What is a snack, why do we snack, should we snack? PROGRAMME Elegant sufficiency Public Health England’s recent advertising Change4Life might imply that snacking is a dangerous thing to do [i]. But those campaigns are aimed at children. Despite what many pundits will tell you, there is nothing wrong with
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What is the difference between dinner and lunch? Not much really. A healthy woman should see both dinner and lunch as equivalent. I don’t think it really matters whether you have dinner at lunch time, supper at night or are inviting friends to a formal dinner party. In every case the evening meal should contain
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The Good Life Part 03: Advice on healthy eating for women at home, in cafes and restaurants and how to pack a lunch-box. PROGRAMME Ladies who lunch The body responds well to a rest at lunchtime, as well as some food to power the afternoon ahead. But unless we’re at home and have time to
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Part 2 of the series The Good Life Find Part 1, What is a Balanced Diet? and the Go Dotty! food counter here>> Many nutritionists recommend that we should aim to divide out daily calorie allowance into three meals of roughly equal scale and five snacks. So, for an average woman aiming to consume about
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