This is the easiest meal of the week for me to make but is still a firm favourite. My son loves it, friends and other families have adopted it as well so I thought I would share it will all of you too. It doesn’t look very exciting but it...
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Did you have a roast chicken on Sunday? If you did, hopefully you made a quick chicken stock from the bones (mine is simmering away as I type this). The two main reasons that I make a stock each week are: 1 – a home made chicken stock makes...
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Recently, I was invited to appear on Countryfile alongside John Craven with my father and sister to discuss the role of British grown medicinal plants in the war effort. I come from a long line of doctors dating back nearly 300 years. My father...
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Rosehip syrup is known to pack a powerful punch of immune boosting vitamins and antiinflammatory compounds, particularly vitamin C. Interestingly, it is now known that it is the other compounds in the plant, namely the bioflavanoids, which makes...
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The restorative purposes of sleep are starting to unfold more fully, proving that sleep is something that we need as much as something we want. Over the last 10 years, sleep disorders have been taken more seriously, with effect on productivity...
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If you are an insomniac, you have likely seen the effects of a bad night on your skin. It’s not like we need to be told that we look worse-for-wear after a good sleep but as it happens, The Telegraph recently reported that sleep deprivation...
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The chillier autumn season is upon us and my favourite soup is calling. I should really have a proper name for it. I think I will call it “Star Anise and Shitake Mushroom Soup” because these are my two favourite ingredients. Next time...
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We are delighted to share with you our top tips for sleep. Why? Well, because we care and because we know how dreadful lack of sleep is, but also because these tips actually work.How do we know they work? Because they got us back to sleep. It...
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As paradoxical as it sounds, you need a well energised body to have a very good sleep. Or, to put it another way, your cells need to be well fed in order to stay relaxed. As a recovered insomniac, I can remember being advised to avoid any...
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For nearly half a century, we have been told that eating salt is bad for us. This, after salt has been used throughout history – longer than 50 years – to savour (flavour?) our meals and preserve foods (my own mother-in-law still remembers...
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There can be such a strong temptation to view insomnia purely as a symptom of psychological distress – I know, I have been there! And whilst, yes, of course, sleepless nights can be the result of worry, I don’t believe that is the case with the...
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Someone reminded me recently that the first three letters in the word, ‘diet’ is, ‘DIE’. Well, given the link between sleep deprivation and death and the fact that some diets spell the beginning of sleepless nights, this is not that for from the...
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