“River Cottage Every Day” is truly a cookery book for the modern-age. With the hectic pace of life that so many families and young people lead, there is often very little time to spend cooking in the kitchen, and as a result many people find themselves eating poorly all-too frequently.

The author, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, has compiled a comprehensive list of simple recipes that not only take minutes to prepare, but will also add to a balanced and nutritious diet. Working mainly as a writer and broadcaster, Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “River Cottage” series has earned him countless awards including the Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food at the Guild of Food Writers and, on three occasions, the Andre Simon Food Book of the Year.

What makes this book even more appealing is that the majority of recipes listed are geared towards the budget-conscious, and there is some invaluable advice on how you can eat healthy without paying a high price. But the author also covers what you need to know away from the cooker and there are also some tricks and tips for finding time to spend in the kitchen. However, the key ingredient is always fresh food.

“River Cottage Every Day” takes care of every meal you could think of – family dinners, breakfasts, quick snacks are all included – and there is also useful advice for what to put in the kids’ lunch boxes. Whether you want to have a more balanced diet or are looking for easy-to-cook and budget-friendly recipe ideas, this book comes highly recommended.

Some of the most recurrent news issues to hit the headlines in recent times are panics over health – MMR vaccines causing autism, obesity epidemics, bird flu, most recently swine flu, often accompanied with fearful warnings about mass contamination and incalculable death tolls. Most of which, it would appear, fail to materialise. 

For those who are becoming sceptical about the latest media frenzy about health, Ben Goldacre is the perfect antidote. His book Bad Science, published in 2008, is an extended and revised compilation of the weekly columns he writes for The Guardian newspaper, in which he insists on using sound, scientific fact to debunk and refute spurious claims and unnecessary panic. In these articles you will find Goldacre’s forensic analysis of the distorting effects on real science of consumer product marketing, the pharmaceutical industry’s often far too cosy relationship with some prominent medical journalists,  and of pseudo-science and plain quackery masquerading as fact. With the satirical astringency of a radical pamphleteer, he famously exposed the scientific limitations of a certain celebrity ‘health expert’ by obtaining a ‘certified professional membership’ from the American Association she claimed membership of – for his pet cat.

Goldacre is not merely an amateur sceptic – he knows what he is talking about. Working as a junior hospital doctor in the NHS, he is also a qualified psychiatrist. Having won numerous awards for his medical journalism, Goldacre substitutes the voice of truthful reason in place of fear, inaccuracy and, on occasions, sheer falsification.

We’ve been looking into book about medical issues and natural remedies, and we’ve found a book called Natural Highs which also covers Herbal Highs.

The Natural highs book is written by Patrick Holford and has a ISBN number of 1583331336.

First released in 2002 by Avery.

Customer reviews of the herbal high book on amazon 4.5 out of 5  which isn’t often seen, making this book a definite hit and valuable buy.

Here is a clippet from an amazon review

“I’ve known Dr. Cass’s work for a number of years now and so, expected quality. But this book is even better than I expected, in terms of the breadth and depth it covers.”