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always been overshadowed by this idea of, ‘You don’t look any smaller’, or ‘Don’t you want to alter your diet because I can’t see much change’.
“And I just want to say, ‘Actually love, I just get on that bike and listen to Harry Styles because I like it!”’
Another almost accidental healthy habit is Candice’s diet, which contains very little meat, and plenty of veg and seafood – not because she’s particularly trying to be healthy, but she just likes it.
“My weakness is seafood – if that was the barrier of getting into Heaven, then I’ll just get ready to burn. I cannot move through the week without there being something like king prawn or lobster – I love seafood!”
She adds with a hearty guffaw: “I love cakes and chocolate too – I just stuffed three macaroons in my gob before we started talking!”
She’s keen to stress that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, as long as you don’t do it too often, perhaps.
“I think it’s called ‘intuitive eating’ when you basically just listen to yourself, and when I look at my monthly cycle as a woman, there are some times when my sugar craving can’t get much higher.
“I’ve learned to allow that to happen – it’s a free-for-all day, what are you going to do about it?
“And usually, a week after my period starts, I’ve got no interest in sugar,” Candice reasons.
“It’s really cool to see yourself in those phases, so you can understand why your body wants a certain thing.
“It’s about balance.”
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BERRY BOOST FOR THE BRAIN
Eating cranberries could help patients with dementia – a study showed the fruit improves memory and brain function, as well as cutting bad cholesterol.
Research by the University of East Anglia showed people who ate 100g of cranberries a day had significantly better episodic memory and better blood supply to the brain than those who didn’t.
Lead researcher Dr David Vauzour says: “Dementia is expected to affect 152 million people by 2050. There is no known cure, so it is crucial we seek modifiable lifestyle interventions, such as diet, that could lessen risk.”