Boudicca Fox-Leonard

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Senior Lifestyle Writer at The Telegraph

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How chefs stay slim and fit (despite long hours and leftovers)

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

Between the pace, the pressure, the rich food and the late nights, the life of a chef is not for the faint-hearted - or the health conscious. The 2021 film Boiling Point, set in London's hottest restaurant on the busiest night of the year, got its name for good reason. Around 41 per cent of UK chefs say their job impacts their wellbeing negatively and almost three-quarters admit to calling in sick because of stress, according to a survey.
How to host the perfect bank holiday feast

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

Laura Jackson credits her top hosting skills to her northern roots (but admits she does make her guests take their shoes off!)By rights, Laura Jackson should be insufferable. Hers is an enviable CV that encompasses both success on the supper club scene in the 2010s and cool-girl appearances at Dior fashion shows. Her homeware website Glassette is a drool-worthy mecca for the interiors obsessed, while her wardrobe is envy-inducing.
Martha Stewart's tips for creating a perfect garden

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard |Lia Leendertz |Tom Brown |Simon Lewis

Create your own charming outdoor space with a little help from America's homemaking queenMartha Stewart is the original lifestyle influencer. For four decades, the American businesswoman has been an authority on all things cooking, decorating and general home-making wholesomeness. Before there was ever Instagram, and even before Gwyneth created GOOP, Stewart was the honey-haired all-American domestic goddess.
The Human Being Diet: how to lose half a stone in 16 days

2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

Petronella Ravenshear remembers being quite cynical when clients told her that, despite trying, they couldn’t lose weight. She admits to thinking they were making it up. That they must really be lying on the sofa and scoffing chocolate. That was until she hit menopause and she says: “Thank God it happened to me.
‘I was sexually abused, you never really get over it’: How survivors grapple with lifelong trauma

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

In the end, the toll was too much for Virginia Giuffre. “She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse,” her family noted in their mourning statement. The fact that her abuse happened a quarter of a century ago, when she was in her teens, was no bar to misery today. Time, after some experiences, is no healer. James* also suffered sexual abuse as a youngster. Waking up to the news of Giuffre’s death brought his own struggles vividly to mind again.
How survivors grapple with lifelong trauma

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

Subsequently he found that the trauma permeated every part of the life he wanted to lead. "When it happened to me I was so traumatised by it I started drinking heavily and smoking. And it was a constant battle. I started setting goals: I've got to live until 18, maybe then I'll sort my head out. Then it was 21, then it was 30, then I got married and thought: 'If I can just make it to 35 and have my first child.' You're constantly battling in your own head with survival.
What tick bites look like and how to deal with suspected Lyme disease

3 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

There’s something in the grass. If you have carelessly strayed bare-legged into woodland territory and found yourself with unwelcome travelling companions, then you will already be aware that we are in the thick of tick season. Ticks are particularly common in grassy and wooded areas and are active all year around, however they are most prevalent between April and July. Milder winters are thought to be making tick season start earlier and last longer. Animals also drive up tick numbers.
The health hazards of summer sandals

3 weeks ago | ca.style.yahoo.com | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

Podiatrists joke that summer and flip flops means it is heel pain season - Andrew Crowley for The TelegraphSummer sandal season always presents podiatrist Helen Branthwaite with new patients, but this year her own mother was among them, having purchased a pair of pale blue Birkenstocks only a few weeks before. “My younger sister had some and then my mum bought some too,” says Branthwaite.
Our daughter had a stroke at 17. This is how we helped her survive it

4 weeks ago | msn.com | Boudicca Fox-Leonard

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How to decorate with pistachio green, the new neutral that's better than grey

4 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jessica Salter |Lucy Gornall |Melanie Lissack |Boudicca Fox-Leonard

This versatile shade goes with anything, and brings a fresh yet warm look to your homeIf your home is crying out for a little spring-inspired refresh, then look to the colour of the season, pistachio, to give it a lift. "As a colour, pistachio is both soothing and sophisticated," says Jason Wilary-Attew, director of home at John Lewis, which got ahead of the curve and chose pistachio as its colour of the spring/summer 25 season, back when everyone else was predicting mocha mousse.