ODE TO BREAKFAST PORRIDGEJanuary 26th, 2012 I can't abide breakfast cereals, from any perspective – health, taste or aesthetics. As far as taste goes, I think they are wretched, bordering on punitive. In the...
JUICING: A HELLUVA HYPE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE EVIDENCE?January 25th, 2012 Complementary medicine is awash with charlatans and shysters peddling more miraculous cures than there are diseases to be cured. The same can be said of orthodox...
THE LUNCHBOX: DEFINITELY NOT FOR WIMPSJanuary 18th, 2012 An ex-boyfriend once commented to me that he always felt sorry for people who took a lunchbox to work. It was the early 90s and I remember laughing because I...
WHICH? MAGAZINE REPORT LAMBASTES NUTRITIONAL THERAPYJanuary 16th, 2012 Which? Magazine has just published a report on nutritional therapy, in which the profession comes out rather badly. In fact it tears strips off us. In brief: five...

Maria Cross – good food, good nutrition, good health

I love food. But not just any old food. I'm talking food which is not only a joy to share, and eat, but which is compatible with human health and makes you feel good and full of vitality. It doesn't get better than that, which is why I originally studied nutritional therapy at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. Years of working as a nutritional therapist means that not only do I do what I love, but derive enormous pleasure from obtaining results, through diet, for people with all sorts of symptoms. You'd be surprised at how nutrition can help with symptoms such as low energy, weight gain, PMS, dry skin, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, insomnia, headaches, eczema, acne … the list goes on and on. So eat well, be well. I hope this website helps you do just that.

Here you can find information on my current book, I Wish I Hadn't Eaten That, and also follow my blogs which I hope inform, update and entertain you. I have also included a section on foods and products I feel inclined to recommend, and others which I wouldn't go near, and suggest you don't either. Feel free to make requests! If you like what I write, you might also like what I read, so I have listed some of my current favourite health and diet related books.

Eat like a human

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations." Oscar Wilde

Good food does so many good things. Health is inextricably linked to diet, and to fill your body with junk and not expect consequences is sheer madness. To fill it with nourishing good food is sanity and wisdom. So choose health, and choose a healthy diet. To do so does not require that you relinquish all worldly pleasure. Good, real food nurtures health, vitality and the senses. It begins its journey through the body by satisfying the brain's hunger receptors and by the time it rejoins the external environment it has fortified your constitution and fed your mind. Nothing could be more important.

What - and what not - to eat