Doctor's Review: Medicine on the Move

May 18, 2013

Nutrition

Playing fast with the facts?

by KIM N. ARREY

It’s often called the 5:2, or Intermittent Fasting (IF) diet. Basically, you eat next to no calories for ...

Why the Mediterranean diet and not ours?

by KIM N. ARREY

Studies on the Mediterranean diet are no longer observational. More recent ones are interventional, looking for specific measurable ...

"Age-old" eating habits

by KIM N. ARREY

Recipes

Clean green

by MEREDITH BAIRD WITH MATTHEW KENNEY

This is a light, easy and clean green juice. Fennel is very warming and soothing to digestion.

Medicinal miso

by MEREDITH BAIRD WITH MATTHEW KENNEY

Miso is a fermented bean paste with a complex salty flavour that adds a roundness to many recipes. ...

Red salad

by MEREDITH BAIRD WITH MATTHEW KENNEY

This recipe was inspired by a salad from a funky restaurant in Northern Florida. Shredded red beets and ...

Ballymaloe brown bread

by COLMAN ANDREWS

Tim Allen, son of Michelin-star chef Myrtle Allen, made this famous loaf one day at the Ballymaloe Cookery ...

Pickled salmon

by COLMAN ANDREWS

Because salmon was so plentiful in Ireland until recent times, it was often preserved, not only by smoking, ...

Watercress and almond soup

by COLMAN ANDREWS

The late cookbook author Theodora FitzGibbon adapted this recipe from “a handwritten recipe book, 1735;” she doesn’t specify ...

One Bottle

Less than meets the eye

by JAMES NEVISON

Wine would seem like a simple thing to make. It’s just grapes, after all; you grow them, pick ...

The best of both worlds

by JAMES NEVISON

In wine circles it’s not uncommon to have lengthy debates about “Old World” versus “New World” wines. Actually, ...