Who wants to pay upwards of $40 for a body scrub when you can home-brew your own for a couple of bucks? Cheap and cheerfulness aside, making your own skin products also means you can control exactly what’s going onto and into your body – your skin is porous and will soak up anything you slather on it, so needless to say additives and excess chemicals aren’t a great idea. If it’s good enough to eat, you can be sure it’s good enough to put on your skin (and perhaps bake with later, no?).

“Dietary salt restriction has become a cultural cliché, largely as a consequence of the belief that sodium causes edema and hypertension.”  Ray Peat PhD

The French have consommé and glace de viande, the Vietnamese have pho, the Japanese have ramen, and so on – nearly every culture has traditionally included broths and stocks made from animals bones in their diets. 

Whilst gummy bears and jello don’t exactly conjure a picture of good health, gelatin of the non-lolly variety can be a wonderful addition to your diet, with lots of health benefits including:

I’m pretty well convinced that grains contribute nothing to our diet that can’t be found elsewhere – in the form of fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, fowl, eggs & dairy. 

When choosing a nutritious snack, ideally you want to look for one that will supply your body with a little decent protein, quality carbohydrate and nourishing fat. Even if you’re eating something like a piece of fruit, it’s best to include a little something extra to provide the protein and fat to curb the insulogenic effects of those natural sugars on your blood glucose levels (and vice versa, ie make sure you have some fruit or root veggie etc, with your protein), whilst giving you longer-lasting energy.

Recently, there was a New York Times contest that asked people to submit a brief essay as to why it is ethical to eat meat, in response to the assumption that opting to forgo animal products is sacrifice made with an environmental objective.

A quick Google search of the phrase “last 5-10 pounds” yields ~ 29 million, 600 thousand results.

It seems that last 5-10 pounds are notoriously tough to lose and a source of frustration for millions of women. Do you cut calories/restrict carbohydrates/exercise excessively/fast intermittently/go hungry/slurp down cabbage soup? All of the above?

That’s the new cabbage PR slogan. Because at the moment, if you type c-a-b-b into google, the search autofill tool assumes you are looking for ‘the cabbage soup diet’. Which we most certainly are not!