if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

There’s a Flanders and Swann song about the weather in England. “In July the sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it’s not!” July is usually hot b...

My Fitbit has started telling me about the food I eat. Or rather, I have started to confess to it. It has a UK food directory, which makes i...

According to Mrs Robinson the GP we should all be eating 2,000 calories a day because diabetes. Schools need to teach pupils what 2,000 ca...

So let’s talk about diabetes. There are two types of diabetes. The first  is what your grandmother had: an auto-immune destruction of beta ...

So in the Guardian recently was an article by Ann Robinson , who is a GP, about how schools needed to teach pupils what 2,000 calories “look...

I have the Fitbit Flex. It counts steps and does a reasonable job of detecting restless sleep. It doesn't detect stair-climbing. The app...

Okay, it’s time for some music. This one is Underworld’s masterpiece Born Slippy , from the soundtrack of Trainspotting and never release...