Month: December 2022

If you’ve read the blog post Ten Tips for Healthy Eating over Christmas you’ll have some ideas for how to eat for enjoyment without sabotaging your health. However, it’s not just over-indulging in food that can have negative effects on health over Christmas. The stress of the cooking, cleaning, organising and hosting can take its toll. The ...

There’s nothing quite as evocative as the aroma of spices emanating from the kitchen during the festive season. Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without them. And this is no recent trend. Herbs and spices have been used for their culinary and medicinal properties since ancient times. They are known to have antioxidant, anti-microbial, and ...

Christmas can be a joyful time of feasts, festivities and frivolities.  Putting on a few pounds over Christmas is not unusual and is not necessarily a bad thing as a bit of extra padding can help keep us warm over the cold, winter months to come. However, not everyone needs an extra layer of fat, and indeed,  it may have detrimental effects on ...