It is entirely possible that you are already engaged in everything I have written about so far: You already have a good nutritional intake, you look after yourself exercise-wise, you don’t have too much sugar or caffeine… And of course,…

Often when people want to kick-start a healthy new programme, they begin with a ‘detox’ (something for another post another time), then get the nutrition right and then, because of the clever marketing strategies of the big multinational companies, there…

Whilst it didn’t happen this year, all too often, somewhere between 13:00 end 14:00, Christmas dinner goes on the table, a whole morning of stress and panic having passed in the preparation. The exercise starved family has been sat opening…

Having come to the conclusion in the last post that it is not what we eat but how much we eat over Christmas that is more of the problem, I felt that a quick look at an overall back to…

Are you suffering from turkey overload? I’ve never understood it, but the traditional Christmas ‘turkey and all the trimmings’ seems to lead people to buy the biggest bird they can possibly find and then end up eating it for the…

It is that time of year again, when people make all sorts of new year’s resolutions. Often they are about ‘getting fit’ (again?) or going back to the gym or losing weight. In fact, Wikipedia – let’s face it, the…

The other Friday, this cheque arrived in the post. Whilst it may seem like nothing unusual, this cheque was a duplicate payment for an invoice sent in the previous month. I had submitted an invoice then had to correct it…

It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to be the bearer of bad news in any situation, but in the clinical context, it is even worse. When I have to tell people that there is nothing I can do to help…