Dr Chris Barclay

Shop Cook Dine and the joys of using real food as your medicine.

You cannot out-ride a bad diet

GPs to prescribe bicycles? When Boris Johnson recovered from COVID-19 he had reason to be grateful to the NHS, and

Praise the Lord and pass the medication! Diets for overweight and diabetes tend to fall into one of two camps:

Could you imagine a diabetes advice group encouraging you to eat more carbs? Well, sadly that is what Diabetes UK

‘You cannot [reverse] a nutritional disease, such as diabetes, with drugs. It doesn’t work. You have to get to the

Bread, rice and potatoes. The BBC reporter Sima Kotecha and the filmmaker Gurinder Chadha teamed up to highlight two problems

…but in the long run, there’s still time to change the road you’re on. Does being overweight cause diabetes? Is

Cause, Problem, Effect. Here is a re-working of a flow chart I posted late 2018. It began as a thought

A friend of mine sent me a link to this little ditty performed by the …. hmmmm…. raconteur, writer, ex-MP,

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated

If you want to lose weight, it’s all about the CICO – Calories In Calories Out: or is it? Calorie