How’s your sense of smell? In the recent – and ongoing – COVID crisis, our ability to smell (or not) has become one of the key indicators of whether we might have the virus. Indeed, the latest studies suggest that smell tests would be more effective than temperature tests in gaging who has and who…
HOME HEALTH TESTS, OMEGA-3s AND AN AGEING WELL WEBINAR
Blood all over the kitchen, multiple stab wounds and a lot of swearing – no, not a crime scene but husband and I trying to take an at-home health check recently. Here at The Age-Well Project we’re always interested in monitoring our wellbeing, and I’d been keen to try a DIY test for a while….
HOW TO BUILD MUSCLE ON THE SLY – AND WHY
18 months ago I was boarding a train to Scotland, when something life-changing happened. It was one of those small quiet moments of epiphany, an everyday moment but one that left me dazed and shaken. The train was very full (remember those days?) and the only place for my small-ish suitcase was in the overhead…
HOW TO EXERCISE, NORWEGIAN STYLE
A few of you have kindly asked after the health of our superagers – the five remarkable nonagenarians we featured in our first book, The Age-Well Project. I’ve managed to catch up with most of them and I’m delighted to report that all are still alive and well, albeit nearly three years older than they…
Answering your most frequently-asked questions – and a giveaway
A huge thank you to everyone who came to my ‘Feel Great: Age Well’ webinar last month. It felt very special to launch The Age-Well Plan with our warm and wonderful community here. And if it wasn’t the In Real Life event I’d hoped for at the beginning of the year, it was lovely to…
WHY I’M EATING MORE MEAT AND MY NEW FAVOURITE SALAD
I know it’s controversial, and I know I’ve written a lot about eating more vegetables – and my own almost entirely plant-based diet – but recently I’ve started eating more meat. After years of reading and research, I’ve come to the conclusion that a little good quality meat isn’t the dietary bogeyman which will decimate…
FOUR TIPS FOR AGEING EYES, BAKED MACKEREL AND YOUR INVITATION
An optician once told me that our eyes are only designed to last about 40 years – the maximum lifespan of our ancestral forebears – and after that they’re on borrowed time. So if we hope to live well into our eighties, nineties (and beyond?!) we need to focus (as it were) on looking after…
AGEING WELL ON YOUR SUMMER STAYCATION, RASPBERRY CAKE – AND INVITATIONS!
This is the summer of the staycation – while some are bravely jetting off, I’m not one of them. There are so many wonderful things to do on our doorsteps here in the UK, many of which are corona compliant and can help us age well too. In my day-to-day life I juggle TV producing,…
HOW TO BEAT STRESS, ENHANCE NEUROPLASTICITY AND A FABULOUS TREAT FOR YOU
These long months of uncertainty have left me feeling stressed and often unrested, even after a decent night’s sleep. How’s our current state of semi-normality impacting you? Reconnecting with life as much as we can, while knowing that it’s not the same, creates a constant, low thrum of stress. Everybody is facing uncertainty and challenge…
WHAT TO EAT THIS SUMMER
A quick post before I don my walking boots and head off to the South Downs. When I’m not walking, I’ll be eating plenty of sage, large handfuls of capers, a little fish, and lots of plant-based protein. Here’s why…Let’s start with pickled capers which have long been a favourite ingredient of mine. A recent…
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