If you need to follow a wheat, gluten or dairy free diet one thing for sure is that you will have to start cooking for yourself since there are few ready meals available that will be suitable for your restricted diet. But where do you start? continue reading ›
There is a new range of foods making its way onto the supermarket shelves, known in the trade as functional foods. More like medicine than food, functional foods are designed to stop you getting ill by reducing blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, keeping joints pain free, improving the body’s natural immunity and even slowing the ageing process. continue reading ›
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
Pooh would be horrified if he knew that nearly one in 10 children skips breakfast on a regular basis and turns up to school with an empty stomach.
One in every nine women will develop breast cancer at some stage during their lives. A quarter develops breast cancer before the menopause when it can run a more aggressive course leading to infertility and early death. It is hardly surprising that breast cancer is the disease women fear most. But can it be prevented? continue reading ›