Life Style

Untangling the latest evidence and scientific understanding of how food impacts us and why is no mean feat. I have been researching gut and overall health for many years, and have landed on some key guiding principles that have helped me – and I hope will help you – to eat smarter. The recipes below will make following these rules even easier. Diversity of plant species in our diet is more crucial for gut health than the specific type of diet we follow (vegan, pescatarian, carnivore, etc.). Consuming a variety of about 30 different plant species each week emerges as a key strategy for nurturing a healthy gut microbiome and, by extension, overall wellbeing. 2. Eat the Rainbow: The Spectrum of HealthThe adage ‘Eat the Rainbow’ encapsulates a fundamental principle of nutrition that emphasises...

Disclaimer: the 111 rooms are all pretty compact, starting at 16.2 sq/m. It’s London, after all, and space is at a premium. That said, opt for one of the rooms higher up if at all possible. The views of the surrounding streets, in particular the church next door, are rather lovely. And of course, there’s always the massive penthouse at the very top of the building, which boasts high ceilings, massive windows and plush velvet curtains. Source link

Where to start? The Mondrian shares seven restaurants with its sister hotel Hyde – all available to guests of either property. These range from the laid-back beach club Bungalow, where patrons can recline in daybeds, enjoying sashimi and sushi by the pool to a soundtrack of Balearic beats, the upscale Mexican of Cuyo and the chill chiringuito-style Mod-Med restaurant Sonrojo. But the cherry on the cake is most certainly Niko. The Mondrian’s signature fine-dining restaurant, which is newly opened for 2024, describes itself as a modern Japanese concept, and on an island where such fare is not difficult to find, it still manages to stand out thanks to authentic, ocean-fresh ingredients and peerless execution of classic dishes such as Miso glazed black cod. The ponzu-spiked Bluefin tuna tartar...

With the days getting gloomier and colder, the chaos of sniffle season has well and truly set in, but let’s just get one thing straight, the occasional cold isn’t necessarily a sign that you have a weak immune system. It’s a fact of life that germs spread  (especially in winter) - but it’s how your body deals with invaders that’s important. Your immune system should jump into action when it encounters a bacterial or viral threat releasing white blood cells and other chemicals to help initiate recovery. This means, a better indication of robust immunity is how quickly you bounce back to feeling like your old self rather than the fact you felt poorly in the first place. And on the plus side, whilst coughs and colds are frustrating, looking at the bigger picture, the next time the same pathog...

The sight of the art set as they descended on Mayfair over Frieze last week was a something spectacular to behold — a guffawing, Birkin-bumping crowd, shuffling into the Old Masters tent after champagne on Berkeley Square. En masse, they were a vision of black Issey Miyake pleats and neon On trainers. However, it was in a corner of the Richard Green gallery space at Frieze Masters where the true winter style inspiration could be found. L.S Lowry’s (1887 – 1976) matchstick men, working in wintery, industrial towns and wearing perfect, dark overcoats, flat caps and bulky, black leather boots. As far as 2024 winter pin ups go, the Stretford-born artist was not on the bingo card. The new Lowry look: Private White V.C.’s capsule campaign shot Private White V.C.But it’s not just the gallerists w...

To a degree, gay culture has always been elitist. Wit and erudition have always been held in disproportionately high esteem, as have near-impossible beauty standards. Moreover, snobbery will appear within any culture that has become dominant: where there is structure, there are echelons. Today, gay culture is no longer on the fringes: it’s slap bang in the middle of things. From technology and politics – Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Wes Streeting – to media and the arts – Elton John, Andy Cohen, Alan Hollinghurst and the younger crop: Jeremy O’Harris, Ncuti Gatwa, Troye Sivan – gay men are running the show. And those beneath them, whether gay or not, seek to ape their glamorous ways. Source link

I live in Richmond with my wife and three kids — we’ve lived there for about two and a half years and were in the Cotswolds for seven years before that. It’s a big change. Richmond’s not cool but that’s what I like about it. I lived in Ladbroke Grove for years and it’s quicker for me to get to Soho from Richmond than it is from Ladbroke Grove. Where do you stay in London?If I need to stay in town and someone else is paying, I’ll go for Claridge’s — I love the food there. It’s so decadent and over the top to have breakfast in bed there and I love it. It’s old school but they’re not stuffy. Plus the staff are pretty sound. The breakfast at Claridge’sClaridge's/Maybourne GroupWhere was your first flat in the capital?I lived in a bedsit about the size of a table on Hackney Road, which had a c...

When Bella Freud thinks of a moment that helped consolidate her style, a photograph of her father, the artist Lucian Freud, aged 15, standing alongside her great-grandfather,  the “father of psychoanalysis” Sigmund Freud, comes to mind. Both are a strict sartorial vision in their constrictive tailoring. “They’re not dressed for a special occasion, just in this stuff — and it looks so good,” she says, grinning from her study, dressed herself in a punkish, loose-knit black jumper and fully buttoned white shirt. Source link

Inspired by a combination of the DIY spirit of pirate and American college radio, Adeyemi aired the station’s first broadcast in April 2011 – an unpolished but intoxicating mix of beats, basslines, and voices from the underground. Within its first few months, NTS got picked up by indie magazines like Dazed, and word soon began to spread about NTS’ no-rules approach to music curation, and artists and listeners from across the globe tuned in, seeking out a platform that celebrated sounds from the fringes. The station’s roster expanded rapidly, attracting a diverse array of resident hosts, from rising underground stars to established legends like Andrew Weatherall, Gilles Peterson, and Four Tet. Source link

In March, Prince Harry was named in a lawsuit worth $30 million brought against Combs. The lawsuit, by producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, said that Diddy used his associations with “international dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry” to draw guests to his freak-off parties. Although there is no suggestion of wrongdoing on Prince Harry’s behalf, images of Harry, Prince William, Diddy and Kanye West backstage at the 2007 Concert for Diana have emerged online. When asked by Graham Norton in 2011 if he wanted to invite the princes to his parties, the rapper replied: “Not any more, they’re off the list. But before, when they were young bucks they were getting up to trouble themselves. So I was like, ‘Hey, why don’t you come out and hang with me’.”  Source link