I’m still amazed at how the low-fat theory is so deeply ingrained in people’s minds.  Recently I’ve heard a number of stories of people who are convinced that if they eat ‘low fat’ all day then it’s okay to eat a whole Mars Bar before going to bed…  Or those that won’t eat ‘fat’ but…

‘We are what we eat’ is certainly a very old saying and one that has been used by many people to denigrate all sorts of diet theories over the years.  Well I think the best one is ‘if you eat rubbish then you’ll be rubbish’. I’ve just watched the BBC 3 documentary which follows Zoe…

After writing about farmed fish in Scotland, it’s amazing how many more articles about fish farming around the world started popping up – all around the question of whether farmed fish is environmentally sustainable. The first article I came across was from The Australian newspaper (18 Dec 2010), and once again the scary comment from…

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and I wish you a happy holiday season and all the very best for the New Year.  Here’s a small selection of the xmas lights from our local village – it’s quite a local attraction… I made Florentine biscuits for xmas from my mother’s famous recipe.  There’s nothing…

I happened to watch the BBC program ‘Country File’ the other day (28 Nov 10) in which they had a segment on salmon farming in Scotland.  It was all very interesting, but one small comment really caught my attention…  it was just a throw away comment by one of the fisheries representatives which said something…