In my distant youth, I was a vegan. Not for health reasons but for animal welfare reasons. Those were the days when there was no such thing as organic or free range. The Body Shop (a British cruelty-free cosmetics chain) had recently opened in my home city of Brighton and the cruelties of factory farming…
FIVE FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SUGAR AND CANCER
Never mind Black Friday, you know it’s nearly Christmas when the Quality Street and mince pies start circulating in the office. And don’t get me wrong – I’m rarely the person who says ‘No’ to a mid-afternoon sweet treat at this time of year. But we know that refined sugar is no friend to healthy…
WHY YOU NEED MORE SPERMIDINE … AND WHY WE STILL LOVE CHEESE
Yes, you read that correctly. No, it’s not exactly what you’re thinking. Spermidine is a polyamine that was first found in human semen but has since been found in almost all human tissue. We wrote about polyamines two years ago, in a post that has become one of our most frequently read. It’s worth reading…
THREE AGE-WELL FILMS TO WATCH ON NETFLIX NOW
Netflix isn’t just all about Stranger Things 2, or The Crown or whatever your particular binge-watch bag is. It’s also home to a raft of documentaries about healthy living. As a TV producer, and healthy ageing blogger, watching health docs is where my much-loved day job meets my passion project. The films on Netflix are…
INFLAMMATION: THE HEALTHY AGEING RESEARCH YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NOW
Inflammation is both our body’s friend, and its deadliest enemy. Good inflammation heals cuts and grazes, or protects damaged muscles. It does its healing job, then goes away. problems come when we suffer long-term chronic inflammation, when the body turns on itself, causing everything from premature ageing to, er, death. I’ve been thinking hard…
WHY A LINE OF FLOSS WILL KEEP YOU IN GOOD HEALTH – COURGETTE, LEEK & GRUYERE FRITTATA
As I reclined in the dental chair yesterday (jaws forcibly widened, blood drooling from my mouth, metal implements clamped to my molars), my dentist decided it was time I learned about the growing link between gum health and – er, death. Gum health, she informed me, is now thought to be a trigger for heart…
WHY YOU NEED TO NURTURE YOUR LOVED ONES: ONE-POT COD WITH RED VEGETABLES
Yesterday I visited a friend whose Easter was spent battling for the life of her son. Not in a sophisticated London hospital but on a remote African island. Her twelve-year old son’s appendix burst somewhere between Madagascar and a tiny island, reachable only by a three hour choppy boat ride. The island had no hospital,…
EAT LIKE A FOUNDLING: SICILIAN CHICKEN WITH POTATOES & ARTICHOKES
I spent this morning at the Foundling Museum. For those you that don’t know it, the Foundling Museum is one of London’s best kept secrets, with a lovely newly opened café (which I whole-heartedly recommend). The museum currently has a small but intriguing exhibition (hurry – ends 8th January) on the food fed to its…
FIGHTING FIT WITH FAT, THE HEALTH GAP AND A RECIPE FOR MEATFREE WEEK
For those of us who came of age in the last century the idea that fat is a health food used to sound like crazy talk. But there’s been report after report in recent years on the benefits of fat (and we’ve covered many of them on Kale & Cocoa) and I’ve finally got the…
WHY STRESS MATTERS – FREEKEH WITH ARTICHOKES
It’s been a stressful time in British politics. Our political elite appear to have disintegrated in the space of a week. As I’ve watched Tony Blair, David Cameron, Barack Obama and a host of other politicians on screen, I‘ve distracted myself with close scrutiny of their appearance. And I’ve been struck by how quickly they’ve…
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