| Hate exercise? A cheeky solution... |
| 12th January 2007 |
I bought a bicycle last week. It wasn't planned.... it wasn't a New Year's Resolution... it was an impulse buy. Usually my impulse buys involve a bottle of malt whisky, an expensive steak or a slab of dark chocolate. (Come on now, don't tut. You know how GREAT life is when you treat yourself to this stuff!) But I this time I surprised myself with a healthy impulse. I was in the shop because Lara wanted to get a bike so she could cycle to wo ..
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| Why the health loons are wrong about cheese |
| 5th January 2007 |
Happy New Year! Or, should I say, HEALTHY New Year? Because you should be heavilyarmed against the January nasties, thanks to my email from the 3rd of December. What? You can't remember it? You didn't read it? ...Your DOG ate it? Well, I'll recap. Back in early December I listed my favourite 6 health products to help you through a weary, cold, depressing January. They were: LiverPure, which cleans your liver with a combo of Milk This ..
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| An Urgent Christmas Warning |
| 22nd December 2006 |
Hi, This is my last letter before Christmas, so I felt I had to warn you… There's something important you must remember about overeating at Christmas... about all those chocolates and pies... those second helpings and indulgent puddings... All that FAT and CARBOHYDRATE and GOOP. All that bad-for-you-stuff… all that gut-busting, lard-inducing, sweetened rubbish you're about to throw down your gullet. Yes, I'm sorry, but I am going to have to ..
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| A funny story with a dark message for us all… |
| 15 December 2006 |
I should have been born in the Victorian age… Because if I'm honest, I just don't like computers. Take last Sunday. I spent a blissfully quiet hour writing to you to tell you about something I've found that I think you'll really like. I crossed the 'I's' and dotted the 'T's (you can see how much attention I paid at school), and pressed send with a satisfied flourish. But something happened. And the letter never got sent. I still don't know w ..
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| The food that pretends to be good for you… |
| 8th December 2006 |
Last weekend I went to a friend's 60th birthday party in Wales, in a beautiful place called St. Brides Castle. It was a three hour drive from Bristol…well, four if you add on a wrong turning that took us 50 miles off track. I'm too chivalrous to blame anyone, so I won't name names. But to give you a clue it begins with an L. And ends in 'ara'. Anyway, by the time we arrived it was time for a quick tidy up, a cup of tea, then off to dinner. ..
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| Natural protection against a natural born killer |
| 1st December 2006 |
Find a four leaf clover and you'll have great luck. So goes the old Irish folk saying. I can't see why the fourleaf clover should be considered lucky. Except for the fact that it's so rare. Apparently only one clover leaf in 10,000 has four leaves. I don't particularly fancy those odds. Why bother with luck, when you can put the odds firmly on your side with a plant known as “red clover”? No, it doesn't look much like the clover that the Ir ..
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| Why I was wrong about fresh food |
| 24th November 2006 |
Can you cast your mind back two Fridays ago? Don't worry… this isn't a test. Sometimes I can't remember why I stepped outside the front door. No, I just want you to think back to an email I wrote you. It had the subject line: 'Will Al Capone be your new doctor?' In the email I talked about how you should try as much as possible to eat natural, fresh food, rather than rely on artificial products. After all, it's not as if you can fake fresh ..
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| Something you can do to improve your health today..... |
| 17th November 2006 |
First off, I must apologise for not writing to you last Sunday. But I have a very good excuse… Yes, better than me falling asleep in front of the telly after Sunday lunch. MUCH better than that. How a broken down car led to the secret of long life! I was taking the family out to Longleat for the day to see the lions, tigers and rhinos. In fact, I was day dreaming about leaving my eldest there, because he was playing up something rotten. (B ..
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| Will Al Capone be your new doctor…? |
| 10th November 2006 |
Imagine the scene… You pop down to your doctor's, he slips you a voucher for the local curry house and says “I insist you eat out at Sheesh Mahal once a week. Don't worry, the NHS will foot the bill. You just enjoy yourself”. Wouldn't that be marvellous? No, this isn't one of my vivid dreams where the world is made of chocolate and I have to keep telling Raquel Welch to stop bothering me, because I'm happy with Lara. (Raquel Welch… I'm givi ..
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| Men! Are you the one in ten? |
| 5th November 2006 |
They say that impotence affects one in ten men in the UK. This is a shockingly high figure…. 23 million sufferers… but it gets worse when you think about it. Because surely this also affects women? I mean, shall we say, “It takes two to tango”. Considering it's such a huge health problem, I was surprised to check back over my old Good Life Letters and see that I hadn't dedicated one to this issue. So I thought I'd cover almost every angle o ..
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