Before we can plan for a long life, we must first examine what governs living. We all know that the heart beats, that we breathe, that we eat, sleep, think and move. But what actually governs this miraculous process? The engine of life is our metabolism. Simply put, metabolism is the bio-chemical transformation of food, …
There is increasing evidence that from about 10,000BCE, after people settled and started tending crops and domesticating animals, that diet improved, health improved and longevity started to rise. Despite the fact that nothing was written down, there were no birth certificates and memory can play tricks on us even today, we can learn a lot …
Our level of health as we grow older and even whether we grow old at all, is dictated by many things. We are born with a genetic make-up that can be improved by healthy living or damaged by stress and pollution. But it would be wrong to consider that longevity is simply a health issue. …
Longevity is a scientific issue, but ageing is a social, financial, political and a feminist issue. Like many things that happen to women more than men, growing old is often side-lined. The disaster in our care homes during 2020 was a disaster that occurred more often to women than to men. And it has been …
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. …
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 …
Are wholegrains healthy? Why are grains so important? Are refined grains so bad for us? Why a healthy balanced diet is the best solution? Recommendations While we are all living with the threats of coronavirus, it is easy to forget that other research, nothing to do with the pandemic, continues to be published. New information …
I’d planted a series of vegetables and most things were doing well. I was pleased. Yet soon it became clear that the sweet basil was not thriving. For me basil is often a difficult crop. But I grow it because it adds such marvellous flavour to tomatoes. Just the smell of basil reminds me of …
This year I haven’t been able to buy new seeds. Like many keen gardeners I’ve been forced to survey a huge box of out-of-date seeds and select from these. But a few well chosen home-grown vegetables will help augment a lockdown diet and improve the flavour of tired shop-bought lettuce. I’ve always known that it’s …
Something to cheer us all up, a delicious home made lemon meringue pie recipe. And home made means far more nutrition than anything you’d buy from a shop. I’ve brought together my favourite sweet pastry recipe, based on an old Nigella Lawson staple in her 1998 book, How to Cook and a BBC recipe that …
