Why are people going hungry in the UK?
It’s utterly intolerable that people are forced to use foodbanks in Britain today but it’s also bizarre that in such a rich country it’s now so necessary. Why is this? We can all come up with our pet...
View ArticleHow to feed people with allergies
With the party season upon us, do you worry about feeding people who have allergies? Or who are vegetarian, teetotal, vegan, gluten, wheat or dairy free? My colleague Eve Menezes Cunningham has written...
View ArticleHave yourself a Paleo Christmas
How can you possibly diet at Christmas? Surely it’s impossible unless you have such an iron-clad willpower that you’re not quite human? Well with Paleo it’s easy peasy pudding and pie – so long as you...
View ArticleSigning off for the year
Have decided this is my last blog of the year – oh stop crying! I can tell from here those are fake tears. No one wants to read a diet blog over Christmas and the new year. So I won’t be writing it. I...
View ArticleSold another short story!
Know I said on Wednesday that I’d blogged for the last this year but I just HAD to come here and record that I’ve sold another short story! For Ireland’s Own – double Christmas issue! Had no idea till...
View ArticleDetox? Diet? HELL NO!
So hello and welcome back to my tiny band of loyal followers. I woke up this morning – always a good sign that – to my clock alarm in a state of, well, alarm! At 7.53! Neither of the phone alarms went...
View ArticleAction on sugar
Was drinking my almost sugar-free coffee this morning when an item on Breakfast News came on about sugar. There’s a campaign to try to get food manufacturers to reduce the amount of added sugar in...
View ArticleSugar Rush!
Big debate on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show yesterday about sugar. Action on Sugar, which spearheaded all the publicity yesterday, has no paid staff and no paid advisers. So it did very well getting...
View ArticleOn a high from my new low!
Rang the doctor’s this morning for results of my blood tests taken last week. “No further action required,” said the receptionist. A HUGE relief as it was this time last year that THEY rang ME! Saying...
View ArticleSugar and sleep
I don’t like to promote products or programmes on this blog but on Monday Channel 4 is doing a Dispatches on sugar – is it addictive? I’ve little idea what the programme will contain in terms of...
View ArticleSugar me
Sugar is certainly getting a lot of publicity these days isn’t it? Why you’d almost think the world was waking up to the fact at last that sugar is our enemy when we’re trying to be healthy and/or lose...
View ArticleMore sugar in cereal than chocolate!
Did you know that there is MORE sugar in a bowl of Special K than there is in a 90% cocoa solid bar of Lindt dark chocolate? Stunning. Truly stunning. I always thought eating dark chocolate was okay on...
View ArticleSugar versus fat
Watched BBC Horizon programme last night called Sugar v Fat. And as promised over on the Twitters here is my take on it. First off, as with most documentaries these days, there were the now seemingly...
View ArticleHow fat is your town?
Are you living in a fat environment? Does the place where you live, the work that you do, make you fatter than you might otherwise be? Or has the definition of fat and obesity changed? Try this amusing...
View ArticleSugar and stress
So I went for my weigh-in yesterday. I didn’t have particularly high hopes I must confess. Been feeling bit stressed and stress makes me turn to sugar. Not chomping on sugar cubes you understand. Just...
View ArticleDreaming of cake…
So I keep dreaming about cake. Or sugary confections. Ice-cream piled high in tall glasses with long thin spoons to eat it with so it takes longer. Or creamy cakes lusciously and lovingly filled with...
View ArticleMonday morning coming down…
As I write it is, in fact, no longer Monday morning but Monday lunchtime. Which is great because it means the worst part of the week is over. I have work I adore - communications and PR for the...
View ArticlePaleo Pancake Day
I am not a Christian but I have decided I am going to keep Lent this year. Never done it before, on account of not being raised a Christian. But always fancied having a go. Strikes me as a good idea to...
View ArticleWhat CAN we eat?
What can we eat? Four words you will probably have heard over and over again this week after reports that eating meat is as bad as smoking 20 fags a day. Sugar intake should be cut too oh and carbs get...
View ArticleMy diary saved my sanity
I hardly ever get the chance to share one of my magazine pieces as they don’t tend to put them online for fairly obvious reasons. (At least I hope the reasons are obvious!) But a piece I wrote last...
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