The good news for us here in South Africa is that Patrick Holford will be in the country from 29 February to 10 March to present a series of talks on ageing, how to do this healthily and with the least amount of medication and for the launch of his latest book The 10 Secrets [...]

  We take the time to learn how to cook, how to garden, how to manage our money,how to dance, but how about learning how to age well?  We are the first generation that can choose to and learn how to age well so says Patrick Holford. Together with renowned health journalist Jerome Burne, Patrick [...]

When you are younger, it is easy to fool yourself into believing that all those degenerative and life threatening diseases will only happen to other people. But are you really immune to both minor and major infections and will cancer pass you by? Are you free from allergies and do you rarely suffer from a [...]

Next to the common cold, symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are the most commonly reported ailment, affecting as many as one in four people at different levels of severity. Symptoms vary but include bloating, gas, tiredness after meals, intermittent diarrhoea or constipation and abdominal pain. April is IBS awareness month so if you suffer [...]

Europe’s biggest ever diet trial, involving 722 families, costing 14.5 million euros, set out to discover the winning formula for weight loss. Conventional diet advice has been to eat low calories and low fat, but heretics such as the late Dr Robert Atkins pioneered high protein, low carb diets – essentially more meat, less potatoes. [...]

A new study has found that drinking water before meals can enhance weight loss. Over a 12-week period, dieters drinking two glasses before each of their three daily main meals lost around five pounds more than those who didn’t increase their water intake. This is the first randomized-controlled trial to look at water intake and weight [...]

Adapted from “The Holford Diet by Patrick Holford” Your body has evolved over millions of years to work perfectly with a certain kind of diet. Our ancestors weren’t fat because they ate an optimum diet, as do the lucky ones such as the Hunzas in the Himalayas, whose average lifespan is over a hundred and [...]