Though I'm not actually a vegan, most of my meals are vegan because I like this type of food.  I don't tell all my clients to become vegan because a) that would be weird and unprofessional and b) many people do better with a bit of animal product in their diet. Persona...

Something awful happened to me the other day.

I'd prepared a lovely green salad and was about to tuck in to it when I suddenly noticed something...a little dark green speck.  Then another.  Then another. 

The lettuce was covered in aphids! 

I had to chuck the wh...

As we all know, the human body is a wonderful machine and the immune system uses inflammation to fight off invaders threatening your health. 

How it's supposed to work is that if you get wounded or have a bacterial or other pathogenic infection, your immune cells releas...

Ok, not everyone, but lots of nutrition geeks, veggies and vegans.  It's the new rockstar of meat substitutes, even finding it's way into some tasty takeaways like GBK's Jack-in-a-bun. 

But wait...it's just fruit!  How can it possibly be a meat substitute?  Actually not...

Animation credit: Steve Cutts - www.stevecutts.com  

I love tech.  I have loads of gadgets and sadly, I couldn’t envisage life without my smart phone, AirPods or MacBook.   In fact, I run both my businesses almost entirely via my laptop and phone, so I need to be o...

Hands up who’s suffered from anxiety?  Yep, me too.  For years I coped with chronic anxiety and it sucked.  Anxiety to me felt like a swarm of bees buzzing around in my chest.  Noises become obnoxious to me and any sound out of the ordinary would make me jump....

“Oh it’s just a placebo effect…”

I hear this a lot in the world of science and nutrition.  Placebo in the context of a drug trial (and not the 90s alt rock band) is the administering of a ‘sham’ pill or injection (or even surgery) to a control group of a similar size an...

I LOVE coffee…I mean I really, really love it.  The smell, the taste, the mild buzz...but most of all; the ritual.  I didn’t realise how important the ritual was until I gave up coffee for a whole month. 

Firstly, let me explain why I gave up something I love...

I'd heard of the quarks in physics but not the kind that tastes yummy.  Quark (or quarg) is a type of soft cheese traditionally made without using rennet (the stuff from a calf's stomach that is used to set cheeses).

Quarkfacts:

• Quark is remarkably like yogurt - I ca...

Apologies for the ambiguous title...to be clear, this month's recipe post is for CHOCOLATE.  Forget the glut of left-over, poor quality Easter eggs, these slightly salted chocs will satisfy any craving as well as being super nutritious.

These bite-sized gems are choc fu...