Do you worry about whether you are eating the “right” foods or if you are being “healthy enough”? Something I often notice when I talk to people about health and nutrition is the language we use and how we categorize food as “good” or “bad”….
My brand-new podcast, Pioneers of Ageing, is LIVE! It is the podcast that celebrates a generation that is reinventing what it means to age. I co-host the podcast with a very dear friend Rebecca Rhodes who I´ve known since we were teenagers. The first episode is…
September is World Alzheimer’s month with Tuesday 21st being World Alzheimer’s awareness day. The UK Alzheimer’s Society promotes the awareness month because they want people to come together to demonstrate how we can overcome these issues. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. More…
Here in Mallorca, like most of the Mediterranean, we are in a heatwave. It is seriously hot and when I step outside it feels like I’m in a sauna. Even walking my dog in the evening after the sun goes down is sweaty work. What…
Want to know the Sauerkraut Secret? I don’t know about you, but for me sauerkraut is one of those foods that never sounds appetising; and I have eaten sauerkrauts that, let’s face it, were NOT appetising. But that all changed a few years ago when I met…
New Month. New Topic. Fermented Foods. Future proofing your brain through what and how you eat is fundamental to my Food for Thought programme with fermented food being one of the topics we cover. The current group on my Premier Live programme had an animated discussion about…
When is a salad un-healthy? This week in my “pimping” series I thought I would cover salads. But salads are always “healthy” aren’t they? Yes. And no! Let me explain… For a meal to be healthy it needs to give your body and brain what…
This week we are continuing the pimping theme and turning our attention to pasta. In my 20s I ate far too much of it. It was a simple and cheap way to fuel up. Did I really enjoy it? Or did it just fill the gap?…
One thing my Celebrating Ageing Series taught me is how energising and inspiring a reframe can be. I’ll be honest, all of last year I was kind of dreading turning 50, but, when I started to ask questions and looking at age from all angles, I uncovered…
