When Maud Pember Reeves published Round About A Pound A Week, and available on Project Gutenberg, blessed be its name.
I daresay the passage about porridge is fairly well-known, when people talk about 'why do they not feed their children lovely healthy nutritious food?', which was what the well-intentioned Fabian ladies were doing in Lambeth. But ( Read more... )

I have been wont, for some considerable time, to take a small daily amount of Vitamin C, on the grounds that it is supposed to improve immunity, especially in the common cold season.
But I also consume what I would suppose to be a reasonable amount of ascorbic acid in my daily diet and therefore I very much doubt that I need to neck down the entire ( Read more... )

Dept of, Blaming the Internet for A Phenomenon we have seen before: perchance I am being unduly cynical, but this An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me strikes me as Yet Another of those Born-Again Bloke pieces - okay, it's perhaps more often that FATHERHOOD has given them a new ( Read more... )

(Though the soylent thing was, indeed, A Thing.)
Noble Savage, Paleo Quality Meals.
Ready meals which are 'Already slayed, seared, and slathered in deliciousness. Way more convenient than killing it yourself.'
No, really, this cannot be serious?
(If only because, if trooly, trooly palaeo, they would eschew that latecomer to the human diet, the ( Read more... )

I guess the manufacturers are not au fait with classic 1970s overpopulation dystopian movies.

Soylent: What if you never had to worry about food again?

As far as I can see, this appears to be a
dry powder form along with an oil blend. You mix both of these with water for each serving. It requires no heating or other cooking and has an extended ( Read more... )

This seems like rather a good article on food and diet and what is actually good for one:
Researchers asked if one diet could be crowned best in terms of health outcomes. If diet is a set of rigid principles, the answer is a decisive no. In terms of broader guidelines, it's a decisive yes.
They conclude that no diet is clearly best, but there are ( Read more... )

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'Don't we all write about love? When men do it, it's a political comment. When women do it, it's just a love story'. I'd suggest that in fact it's when men do it, it is about the deep chords of the human heart, when women do it it's soppy wish-fulfillment, but her formulation works as well.

Photographer Nan Goldin burst on ( Read more... )

I was just thinking today (perhaps inspired by browsing around on this amazing resource on UK public health provision) that when I was a tiny tot, yes, we played out in the streets, and on neglected bombsites, and so on, and so forth, why, it was totally a combination of Just William and Enid Blyton, except, on the whole, not in the least...

But ( Read more... )

I was asked out by someone I work with. I was put on the spot and said yes because I couldn't bring myself to reject him. I am friends with this person and didn't want to hurt his feelings. I have problems with relationships, as they make me stressed rather than happy.

Mariella is all about 'it is good to open yourself up to LIFE' but the whole ' ( Read more... )

Faddy diets come and go and come back again.

I was recently musing over the fasting diet phenomenon, various allotropes of which (every other day, 2 out of 5 days, portions of the day, etc) are A Thing at the moment.

And recalled to mind one of the (many) interwar Fad Diets practised by Davey Warbeck - this particular one occurs in Love in a Cold ( Read more... )