The best thing about self-catering holidays in the United Kingdom is that you can buy local produce in a range of places, which are fun to discover as you explore. When I first visited Polzeath in Cornwall in 2001, I was delighted that the Spar shops sold locally caught seafood, which I couldn’t find inContinue reading “Tasty Satisfying Nutritious Seafood Picnic for Social Evening on the Beach”
Category Archives: Creating Healthy Meals
Making Way on Our Own Voyages of Discovery about Food and Environment
Recently, people have asked on social media if we ought to have lockdowns for the environment. I can see why: reports showed that carbon emissions in the UK fell by a third as a result of quarantining us all against COVID-19. However, we need to look at the impact of any measures on a widerContinue reading “Making Way on Our Own Voyages of Discovery about Food and Environment”
Macronutrients, Genes and Regaining Control of Our Own Bodies
There is a lot we can tell about the foods, which nourish us by combining knowledge about macronutrients with your own life experiences with food. When it comes to our own health, fitness and body shape, nothing beats objective research to find answers. Sadly, we all have a jungle of misinformation, conflicts of interests andContinue reading “Macronutrients, Genes and Regaining Control of Our Own Bodies”
Optimised Nutrition as Pandemic Protection
In February 2020, I was feeling a little drowsy. As a person who takes an extremely keen interest in keeping healthy – I’ll illustrate why in a bit – I could not believe that the message that we do not get enough sunlight to make vitamin D, which we need to make calcium, over theContinue reading “Optimised Nutrition as Pandemic Protection”
Why Eating For Nutrition Gets More Important As We Age
Do you remember feeling sick on family holiday holidays as a child? Were you cautious about the milk in France or Spain? Did it taste funny? Did you have a constantly runny nose throughout your school days? Today, one-size-fits-all diet advice is causing a huge amount of chaos. People of all different sizes, ages, womenContinue reading “Why Eating For Nutrition Gets More Important As We Age”
How to Maintain our Weight and Health During Lockdowns
This story is an attempt at pulling many different threads together to create a whole picture of how human nutrition governs our mental and physical health and our body shape. I can’t ask if you’d prefer the good or bad news first, so will just go for it. Rather than peppering the flow with citations,Continue reading “How to Maintain our Weight and Health During Lockdowns”
The vital role of micronutrients through food for recovery
Amongst all the wellbeing and health messages out there, which just tell you “what?” not “Why?” food is seldom written about in a health context. Food plays the most vital role in health besides water and sunlight. Skip Intro Eating for Recovery Meal Ideas Supplements – when to take a short cut Introduction Modern medicineContinue reading “The vital role of micronutrients through food for recovery”
When Nutrition and Healthy Food is Not Personal
It seems as if all diet advice comes with assumptions. It’s either ‘eat less of’ or ‘reduce your portion sizes’. Less than what? Smaller than what? Somehow, diets have all become about reducing and restricting. They follow linear thinking: ‘eat less to lose weight’ rather than ‘eat less to be malnutritioned’. Malnourishment and malnutrition areContinue reading “When Nutrition and Healthy Food is Not Personal”
Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart in Nutrition
Do you find that if you mention weight loss, most people will respond with ‘eat less, exercise more’. This is trotting out the official government recommendations without pause. Most healthy eating apps, except Cron-o-meter and Fooducate plus ones that provide micronutrient information in foods such as Nutrition Facts and Nutrition Info, feature millions of foodsContinue reading “Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart in Nutrition”
We Need the Whole Picture Before We Change Our Body Weight
As the diet industry makes so much money from consumers doing all the work with a distorted view of the truth, many books, tools, articles, programs and even public health initiatives all keep up the lies that mislead us. Whether you are overweight, the right weight or underweight, you may still be healthy or not.Continue reading “We Need the Whole Picture Before We Change Our Body Weight”
Nutritious Meal Ideas 