Big apologies for the long silence but Ms’s Kale & Cocoa have been work-swamped. However, we’re coming up for air in time to make the most of my favourite foraging ingredient – the ubiquitous stinging nettle. Award winning health journalist, Susan Clark, describes the common nettle (usually thought of as a weed with a nasty…
REINVENTION AND CHICKEN LIVER PATÉ
The last fortnight has certainly brought a smile to the faces of Ms’s Kale & Cocoa. Firstly, Public Health England launched its One You campaign by quoting the very research we launched our blog with two years ago –the study showing how lifestyle and dietary changes made in middle age positively impact health in old…
ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH? FIBRE, THAT IS….
I’m not squeamish, but constipation is just one of those subjects that’s awkward to talk, and blog, about. However, a new report published this week reveals all that straining in the loo cost £145m in hospital treatment last year and 1 in 7 adults are affected by constipation at any one time. That is an…
ROSEMARY FOR REMEMBRANCE: WHITE BEANS WITH MUSHROOMS
My short-term memory has been appalling during the last few weeks. I like to think it’s because I’ve run out of green tea and been too busy to replace it. But I suspect it’s the busy-ness that’s caused the problem. At a recent party I was barely able to have a fully-functioning conversation and spent…
INFLAMMATION, TURMERIC AND A SIMPLE FISH CURRY RECIPE
The more I read about turmeric the more I want it in my life. A natural anti-inflammatory, it’s been linked to a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s, cancer, liver disease. It’s also anti-septic, anti-bacterial and packed with anti-oxidants – that’s a lot of anti! In India, where the spice is consumed far more than here, less…
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST CANCER, AND A FAMILY RECIPE
It was World Cancer Day on Thursday so this horrible disease has had a lot of attention this week. The good news, according to Cancer Research UK, is that the number of people in the UK dying of cancer is decreasing: 284 out of every 100,000 people in the UK died from cancer in 2013…
WHICH AGE-WELL DIET IS A WINNER FOR WEIGHT LOSS?
Bear with me writing about diets again, but it is still January. And what does ‘diet’ really mean? The word is usually associated with weight loss, of course, but there are ways to alter eating habits to bring both health benefits AND weight loss where needed. The honest truth is that many of us could…
BOWIE, BOOZE AND TOMATO & COCONUT CASSOULET
I shed a tear for Bowie this week – for him, for his family, for my lost youth. Iconic, fearless, creative, brilliant, he spoke to so many of us with his endless reinventions. His death seemed untimely and unfair. Then Husband and I toasted him with a glass of bubbly – which was both more…
LOSE WEIGHT, FIX BRAIN FOG AND COOK LENTILS
I really overdid it this festive season, and a wobbly Christmas-pud-tum is the result. After Annabel’s post last week about the brain benefits of ping pong I’ll be dragging out our table tennis. But I suspect it’s going to take a little more than that. We’re anti-diet at Kale & Cocoa but the latest wonder…
2016: THE YEAR TO CUT YOUR CANCER RISK AND PLAY PING PONG
So. Now we know: 70-90% of cancers are caused by lifestyle choices. That’s scary. But it’s also hugely empowering. And we think it’s a great note on which to start the new year! We’re not fans of dieting and detoxing, but by making a few lifestyle changes and sticking to them (yes, that means to…
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