How was Christmas for you? With 2020 having been such a difficult year, it would be completely understandable if you’ve really gone to town over the festive period, eating, drinking and making as much ‘merry’ as the rules allow. Possibly you’re feeling a little worse for wear and needing to let your belt out a … Read more
How was Christmas for you? With 2020 having been such a difficult year, it would be completely understandable if you’ve really gone to town over the festive period, eating, drinking and making as much ‘merry’ as the rules allow. Possibly you’re feeling a little worse for wear and needing to let your belt out a … Read more
With Christmas just around the corner we will soon be scoffing lots of rich foods, which will make our tummies rumble even more than usual. Those grumbling, growling noises are the result of food, liquid, and gas passing through your stomach and into your small intestine. There is even a name for it, Borborygmi, a … Read more
With Christmas just around the corner we will soon be scoffing lots of rich foods, which will make our tummies rumble even more than usual. Those grumbling, growling noises are the result of food, liquid, and gas passing through your stomach and into your small intestine. There is even a name for it, Borborygmi, a … Read more
Eight years ago I managed to beat type 2 diabetes by going on my 5:2 diet (cutting my calories two days a week) and losing weight — 9kg to be precise. Since then I’ve become something of a broken record on the importance of shedding body fat to improve your blood sugar levels. So I … Read more
Eight years ago I managed to beat type 2 diabetes by going on my 5:2 diet (cutting my calories two days a week) and losing weight — 9kg to be precise. Since then I’ve become something of a broken record on the importance of shedding body fat to improve your blood sugar levels. So I … Read more
Philip Larkin’s poem, ‘They f*** you up, your mum and dad . . .’ might not have been written about health, but there’s little doubt now that if you have heart disease, you can certainly blame your mum. Your dad, it seems, can’t carry the can for this one! Most parents try to make their … Read more
My wife Clare and I are locked away in a small room — just nine paces by four — with a guard outside to make sure we don’t come out. We’re not allowed visitors and lukewarm meals are delivered in brown paper bags three times a day (7am, midday and 5pm), with fresh linen and … Read more
My wife Clare and I are locked away in a small room — just nine paces by four — with a guard outside to make sure we don’t come out. We’re not allowed visitors and lukewarm meals are delivered in brown paper bags three times a day (7am, midday and 5pm), with fresh linen and … Read more
With just two months until Christmas, it is time to start thinking about presents. This year, what I would love to give my 91-year-old mother who has been self-isolating since March due to her age, is a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine. But how likely is it that there will be one by then, let … Read more