I learnt some new things today about diet and migraine. I have known for a long time that certain foods are triggers for migraine – I think many of us know that cheese; alcohol, particularly red and fortified wines; mono sodium glutamate, cured meats that are rich in nitrites and chocolate have all been cited…
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Vietnam Part 2 – Fresh Spring Rolls
Did the last post whet your appetite for more Spring Rolls? Have you come back for more? You won’t be disappointed – I certainly wasn’t disappointed with my first encounter with fresh spring rolls. The nearest thing I have had is duck pancakes at a Chinese restaurant. Full of fresh crunchy, raw lettuce, cucumber, carrots, bean…
Ageing – It is all a matter of Taste
The five tastes – sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. These combined with the myriad of volatile chemicals that waft up our nasal passages is what gives flavour to our food. As children we remember those foods that we hated – blue cheese, olives, mustard, chilli for example. ‘You will like them when you are…
Back to Twitter and Sugar at the same time…
…I have a bee in my bonnet on this whole Twitter/Social Media thing. Sorry to bore you all with it. My Twitter feed was full of People Against Sugar Tax. I kept them in my feed for reasons of seeing what the other view is. I was talking about how social media does more to…
Detox – the truth
The truth is, your body is very good at detox. The body has the liver and the kidneys tirelessly working to ‘clean’ the blood, maintain pH and all sorts of clever stuff. Between them they are extremely good at ridding our body of things we don’t need, things that are harmful and waste products of…
Happy New Year and good luck with the resolutions
Happy New Year everyone. Hope everyone had a great festive season and the return to the routine has not been too hard! Have you made a new year’s resolution? Does it involve eating better and getting fitter? Or have you opted for a January ‘detox’? There is so many articles and advertising telling us it…
Social Media and Health – Food Matters Live seminar got me thinking…
Social media is radically changing the way we communicate. There are some great things happening using social media, debates can really get out there and good users of social media (which I sadly don’t count myself in that bracket) really use it well to get a message out there, they reach a wide audience and…
Food Matters Live – Lots of sweet debate
A big strand running through Food Matters Live is the whole tackling obesity challenge with a big focus on sugar. Lots of debate about the sugar tax, although it should be communicated more as a levy on soft drinks. I think it is important to understand it fully before having a view on it. This…
Make it up as you go along chicken noodle soup!
If there is one thing I love about the cold weather is pulling out the biggest pot I have and throwing together a large quantity of soup. There is nothing quite so comforting as a big bowl of soup on a cold day with a nice big chunk of crusty bread and maybe a bit…
Food Matters Live 2016 – off to London next week
Food Matters Live is booked along with accommodation and flights. It feels quite extravagant to be off for a multi-day conference – everything is a little more complicated and expensive with a commute from Paris. Fingers crossed that the military planning that is necessary to head off for the best part of 4 days all falls…
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