I've seen the future, and it's weird. Tomatoes will comb their stalks flat before hopping up onto a stool in a photo booth and smiling stiffly at the camera… Potatoes will giggle at their friends because they closed their eyes when their photo was taken… Because judging by the amount they travel, all fruit and vegetables are going to need passports. Take some examples I read about recently… A man walks past a field of Swedes every day on th ..

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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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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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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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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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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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Last Friday, one of them tried to run me over... Another one's sent me to hospital with a broken wrist... And at some point or another they've all caused me sleepless nights and driven me to tears. I am, of course, talking about my children and in spite of the fact that they regularly try to maim or kill me, I love them to bits. Which is why stories like this are so alarming... You are what you eat... and breathe Here's a shameful 'gold me ..

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Dave stared at my chicken salad. “You might want to go easy on the dressing,” he said. “I thought you were a health freak these days.” The restaurant was really busy, so I didn't mind raising my voice to my old mate. “Firstly,” I said, “thinking about your health is not freakish. It's how I plan to see Matt and Tom grow up to become international rugby players.” Dave snorted. “And secondly, salad dressing is good for you in lots of ways. Did ..

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Okay, I tricked you a little. The best way to prevent diabetes is not by kissing, as you'd understand it. Love can change many things, but saliva has limited uses. But I wanted you to read this letter today, whether you're concerned about diabetes or not. Because this advice should be followed by everyone. It will not only arm you against diabetes in the future, but improve your health without you having to resort to faddish diets. In fact, ..

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Back in 1628, a hot-tempered physician called William Harvey was having problems. First off, nobody believed his ridiculous theory that the heart acted like a pump, circulating blood round the body. I suppose the medical establishment of the time declared there was 'no official proof' yet, so it COULDN'T be true. He was probably seen as an alternative medicine quack and ridiculed by the local town crier. Little has changed, eh? The second ..

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