The appearance of a pill can have an effect on how a medicine works.

A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

The treatment of your feet brings you down to earth as well as feeling incredibly soothed in mind and body.

Your receipt from your supermarket checkout might be a source of BPA.

Food tastes better when you have to work hard to get it.

This post is either going to disgust or intrigue you or possibly both. I mentioned last week that at the ashram, we underwent yogic cleansing techniques. The first was jala neti and the second was the slightly more unconventional, vaman dhauti. So what is vaman? Vaman must be performed the first thing in the morning […]

Drinks high in fructose can increase your chances of developing gout.

A new study has pinpointed how chocolate lowers blood pressure.

Some friends of the Dark Mistress referred to the disappearance of one of their midst form FaceBook as suicide, and her eventual return as resurrection. This got the Dark Mistress thinking… In the future nobody will visit a website for health or any other information – they will just get content feeds through FaceBook. Nobody […]

Knowing your flirtation style can help in the dating game.

It might seem reductive but the Dark Mistress is a measurement kind of gal. There is satisfaction in the plotting of progress… The physical stuff like weight-loss is SO EASY to measure. To lose 10Kg and 6cms off the waistline you have to DO STUFF… ok I get that. But sustainability is another matter… Here’s […]

Before we get into today’s business, I should take a moment to explain my purpose in this blog. The name of the blog is a dead giveaway really…here we look at the world through the prism of a glass turnip; we see the world as it really is. We take on environmental and social issues […]