You eat well – right? I often put this question to my clients. They always say: I eat healthily, freshly prepared meat, veg and fruit. I sometimes ask: Where do you buy it? There is nothing healthy about food bought in supermarkets. Nothing. It is a terrible indictment, a terrible consequence of growing businesses and […]
My work is Remedial Massage. So why do I write so much about food and what is healthy and what is not? When I provide a treatment for a client I look at the whole person. This doesn’t mean the muscles all over the body. It means inside and out as well. As well as […]
In my book I have recommended either a hair analysis test or a blood test to ascertain your intolerance. In my work as a Remedial Massage therapist I make the same recommendations. This is because poor nutrition will affect the muscles and workings of the body. I am not a Nutritionist and the testing companies […]
Valentine’s Day Facts click on the link for some interesting information. In Victorian times the celebration on February 14th mostly involved greeting’s cards, but now in more modern times involves flowers, chocolates and meals out and sometimes presents or lavish weekends away. Valentine’s Day is meant to be celebrating love so what is love? […]
A standard called the Codex Standard initiated by The World Health Organisation (WHO) allows gluten to be added to gluten-free foods if under 20 parts per million (20ppm) and it does not have to be declared on the label. When I first heard about this, the amount of additive had been reduced from 200 ppm […]
Monique my nearly daughter-in-law cooked for the first time her Grandmother’s Recipe for Pepper Pot. Pepper Pot is a typical Christmas Food eaten on Christmas Day in Barbados. Delicious simply does not describe this fabulous dish made using a wonderful array of spices and an ingredient that defies a generic name; I don’t think it can […]
The Purple Potato Gotta be a joke, right? Wrong. They are natural. As the book The History and Social Influence of the Potato written by Redcliffe Salaman in 1949 which mentions that the potato from South America dates back to 8000 years BC and mentions on Page 1 that it was discovered by Columbus in […]