With the sun out and vitality levels surging, now is the time of year we all become a little more health conscious. And with this week’s flurry of super-food studies, it seems we’re not short of advice on how to keep our bodies in tip-top condition this summer and beyond. Reading them all back-to-back may [...]

Last Wednesday’s Evening Standard featured an interesting article on the latest celebrity health craze – the alkaline diet. While I’d usually be prone to label these regimes as fads, I have actually long been an advocate of eating alkaline foods – particularly if, like me, you suffer from skin sensitivity or allergies. Slightly raising the [...]

I often blog about the importance of anti-oxidants for the skin and general health, so was really interested to read this week that walnuts have been named an excellent source of the protective goodies. According to Joe Vincen, Chemistry Professor at the University of Scrante, Pensylvania, walnuts contain twice as many antioxidants as other commonly [...]

Scanning over today’s news I couldn’t help but notice that chocolate has been hailed as a new ‘super-food’. Apparently, gram-for-gram chocolate contains more healthy plant compounds than most fruit juices. This is something I blogged about myself a couple of years ago – glad to see those scientists are finally catching up! Obviously these results [...]