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A short note from me this week as I’m reporting from the trenches of Natural Kids camp. Twenty-seven hilarious children, five amazing staff, toys and books galore ... it is so much fun and the most exhausting thing I do all year. Once upon a time a ...

By the time you read this I’ll have been in France for a few weeks, spending quality time with my kids and drinking lots of red wine (funny how those two seem to go together). We’re celebrating my dad’s 70th birthday with family from England, Hungar...

Hospitality is the name of the game for 17-year-old Kayla Williams — and literally, since she came out of the Miss Bermuda Pageant without the crown but as Miss Hospitality instead. Now, courtesy of the MEF group of restaurants, Kayla is in her eleme...

I am sure you have all heard the recent statistic that 74.6 per cent of our population is overweight or obese. That has major implications when it comes to the risk of disease, quality of life and the viability of health insurance benefits. Althoug...

Feeding children healthy food need not be difficult, even if they are picky eaters. Health coach April Godfrey tells clients that being prepared is key. The 40-year-old teaches healthy habits to families based on her studies at New York’s Institute...

Last night Sarah and I wrapped up our second cooking night at the Chef Shop. She delivered some amazing recipes and tasty samples. I added the nutrition know-how and several inappropriate jokes. I had been nervous about entertaining that many people ...

Wander Hodgson’s poor health had turned her into a walking time bomb. She’d survived a bout with breast cancer but was diabetic and overweight; at her heaviest, she weighed 400lbs. In her early 40s, she decided to do something about it. “I wa...

When I was little and went to birthday parties, along with pass-the-parcel and musical statues we played something called The Chocolate Game. We all sat in a circle and rolled a die; if you were lucky enough to roll a six, you would race to the midd...

In the late 1980s the term “French paradox” became popular and it referred to the fact that the French were known to enjoy food rich in saturated fats such as cheese and pate but this had little effect on their heart health. It was decided that red ...

Eat better, feel better. It’s been Sarah Wight’s mantra for the past few years. While most of her friends at college stuffed themselves with cafeteria food and Ramen noodles, she was filling her plate with vegetables. Her biggest challenge was findin...

I am a big fan of keeping life simple. But I am also very bad at it. Take Chloe’s bake sale for example. Last year she was determined to have a pop-up snack stand in the first week of the holidays, to raise money for Open Airways and the SPCA. Every...

The first job that Samuele Sebastiani had in his new country was hauling stones in a horse-drawn cart from Sonoma to San Francisco, using a ferry to cross the bridgeless bay. He saved his money and in 1904 made his first 500 gallon batch of wine. He...