This 'retiring academic' identity is all very well, and most of the time it feels right. In a year which saw the publication of my first 'trade book', Immaculate Forms, and some really enjoyable opportunities to promote it by podcasts and radio programmes, I was starting to forget about the less pleasant aspects of ageing.… Continue reading Intimations of mortality
Tag: diabetes
How to reverse pre-diabetes
As the title suggests, this is going to read like a smug post. In fact, I feel more relieved than smug, and I offer it here in case it encourages others. As regular readers know, back in the summer I had blood tests which by chance revealed that I was pre-diabetic. My GP advised me… Continue reading How to reverse pre-diabetes
Sugar, sugar…
Sugar cubes: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Würfelzucker -- 2018 -- 3582” / CC BY-SA 4.0 When you reach the age of 60, the UK NHS offers you some exciting experiences - or at least that was the case before the pandemic. There's a one-off general health check, which wasn't very encouraging about my body weight, but at that point I didn't… Continue reading Sugar, sugar…
The retiring academic 