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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 you make a roast chicken, save the bones and make a chicken stock to make the naturally delicious base for this soup. Homemade chicken stock cannot be beaten in terms of taste or health benefits.

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 is vital to view your sleep as being connected to your overall health and physiology - insomnia is as much a symptom of imbalance as it is a cause of further imbalance. It is

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 temptation to catch some sleep during the day or evening in order to get a better sleep at night, suggesting that if I was exhausted enough, I would sleep. Well, as

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 food for the family being stored in salt barrels).  Did you know that the word “salary” comes from Roman soldiers being paid, at least in part, in salt, such was its importance, particularly for