Sweet fruit laid bare on a rugged table, supple skinned and furred. To juxtapose the craggy eggshell-tempera smeared around his stretched face. From widows peak to concave dimple, soft and milky like a new-born babe. Shrivelled and unwanted like crumpled paper, now a different shade of flesh. A riverbank of […]

Many people see the raw food diet as being healthier and giving them more energy, despite the lack of any long-term analyses of the successes of a raw vegan diet as compared to other types of raw food diets. To try a raw vegan diet for yourself and see what […]

The beginning of September is a noteworthy part of the year. The 1st is the day the wreckage of HMS Titanic was discovered (and subsequently the ship’s magnificent cellar housing 12,000 bottles of wine – many of which were still intact). It’s independence day in Uzbekistan. It’s Gloria Estefan’s birthday. It is also the 244th day of the […]

Although the 5 A Day scheme may not be that new – it was launched in 1994 to encourage us to increase our intake of fruit and vegetables to benefit our health – there still seems to be some uncertainty about what counts towards it. This was reflected by the […]