When I was growing up, food was life. I come from an Italian family and the words that still ring in my ears from my late Nonno are ‘Mangia, Mangia, Mangia…’ (eat, eat, eat). So imagine their horror when in my late teens, diet culture took hold and I could no longer eat, eat, eat. […]
Let’s be honest, how many of us are guilty of eating lunch at our desks? Or worse still, not eating lunch at all? According to Bupa, a third of us in the UK are stuck in this rut with many saying that they just don’t have time to take a break. But what are the […]
For many, low calorie sweeteners play a very important dietary role – they allow us to consume sweet tasting food and drinks with virtually no calories. There is, however, much controversy surrounding the safety of sweeteners which means they are barely out of the news these days. For example, the Daily Mail recently stated that ‘artificial […]