Healthy and Simple

Some things just make sense. You don’t need a meteorologist to tell you what the weather is like if you look out the window and see that it’s raining. Your opinion may be anecdotal and unscientific but it’s good enough for me under those circumstances.
In the same way, you know that if you raise the [...]

Disasters often bring out the best in people. The recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile led to an outpouring of support – both financial and emotional – from people all over the world for the victims of the quakes. Millions of ordinary individuals, many of whom are going through tough times themselves, donated money to [...]

The budget deficit is soaring, we are trillions in debt and the economy is in a shambles, so how are we going to dig ourselves out of this hole? One idea being bandied around is introducing something called VAT. It stands for Value Added Tax but having grown up with it in England I can [...]

So, everyday the staff here at Healthy and Simple try to come up with new ideas, new approaches, new thoughts on how   you  can lead a healthier, happier life. We are very creative in trying to make the best of a bad situation but some    days
you hear something that has us shaking our [...]

I love technology. For instance, the little widget that they put in a can of Guinness to make it all creamy and foamy is a miracle of modern engineering that has completely transformed some people’s drinking experience!
Now they’ve come up with a cell phone application that helps you keep track of all the cans of Guinness [...]

When I was a journalist we always worked with a basic rule in mind; if something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Now, it wasn’t because we were all hard-headed cynical bastards who didn’t believe anything,  it’s because experience had taught us to suspect that stories or people who seemed just a [...]

I’ve had some really boring jobs in my life. I remember one time I was temping at the corporate offices of a supermarket chain. It was pretty menial, mindless clerical work but I sat outside the office of the man responsible for buying tissues and toilet paper for all the stores.
One day a salesman came [...]

My mum is a genius. She must have been. Years before anyone even talked about childhood obesity she had hit upon a foolproof method of helping me and my brothers and sisters avoid weight issues. She made us eat dinner together regularly, made sure we went to bed on time, and limited our television viewing.
Of [...]

Sometimes something seems so obvious you don’t even need to point it out. But not apparently if you are a medical researcher. It seems that nothing is so patently clear that they can’t find some pretext to get research dollars to tell us what we already know.
For instance, a new study in the journal Spine says [...]

I love getting the New York Times on Sundays and devouring it, curled up in my favorite chair sipping a cup of coffee!  It’s a luxury to me to be able to “really” read the paper and absorb the stories rather than just race through and grab information from the newspaper while getting ready to [...]