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Edinburgh Live
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
GBBO's Mary Berry shares simple diet change she's made to stay healthy in later life
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Dame Mary Berry, the venerable TV chef, has shared her secret to good health as she navigates her 90s - shunning processed foods for a more wholesome approach. The culinary icon and former Great British Bake Off judge disclosed to the 'Lessons From Our Mothers' podcast her preference for shopping at local farm shops and butchers over pre-packaged goods. The celebrated cook explained: "I avoid processed foods. Absolutely definitely. I love to shop at a farm shop and I don't mind knobbly vegetables. I go to my supermarket, I go to the butchers. If you go to a butchers you'll get advice as well as well as good meat." Having graced television screens since 2010 on the beloved baking show until 2016, and authoring upwards of 75 cookery books in over five decades, Berry is an institution in British culinary arts. READ MORE - The tragic message sent to Jay Slater at 3am the morning he went missing READ MORE - Katie Holmes breaks cover after Tom Cruise's awkward comment about Suri Yet, when it comes to recent food crazes, she admits there are some that she cannot quite stomach, confessing her distaste for kale, a vegetable praised for its numerous health properties. Berry expressed her opinion to the podcast audience: "I don't go with the trends. I'm not a huge lover of kale. I use to give that to my pony.", reports Surrey Live. (Image:for Kil) Instead, she champions other green staples, adding: "I love cabbage. I'll promote that or watercress and all those sort of things." Mary Berry recently made a heartfelt admission about her health challenges at a glitzy ceremony. During the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards, where she was honoured with a prestigious accolade, Berry encountered difficulties due to the noise levels from the bustling crowd. The much-loved baking icon, who took to the stage at The Royal Exchange in the heart of London, called for quiet from those gathered, underlining the importance of the proceedings. Dame Mary, fresh from celebrating her 90th birthday and currently engaged with a BBC project, stressed that it was vital for the audience to "must hear every single person", before revealing to the assembly that she is "deaf", as reported by the Daily Mail. According to the news outlet, she implored: "Please do keep it very, very quiet. It's such an important occasion, and you must hear every single person that comes up here. I'm deaf and there are maybe one or two others that also find it difficult to hear everything." Berry has previously spoken openly about her health, noting how fortunate she felt surviving polio as a teenager, particularly before a vaccine became available.
Edinburgh Live
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Princess Beatrice breaks down in tears as she opens up on emotional health struggles
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Princess Beatrice has opened up about her health struggles and the crucial role her mother Sarah Ferguson played in helping her be proud, rather than afraid, of her health battles. Beatrice, 36, was speaking alongside her sister Princess Eugenie on the 'Lessons From Our Mothers' podcast hosted by Cressida Bonas and Isabella Branson when she mentioned a health condition she has battled for over 20 years. She told the hosts that she has had scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, since she was just 12-years-old. The condition was so acute that she had to have an operation. It was during the process of hospitalisation and the aftermath of that experience that Beatrice revealed just how crucial a role her mother Sarah had played in her ability to thrive following the diagnosis. She said: 'I had scoliosis when I was younger. I have scoliosis and I had a big operation when I was 12. Which my mum basically moved into the hospital with me and was there every waking hour. If I was ever in pain, she was right by my bedside. 'I'm sure lots of mums listening to this will have the same experience if their child's ever gone through something. As a 12-year-old little girl I had a big scar halfway down my back and I was terrified of it, I was ashamed. I didn't know what it was I was so young. 'And she used to be so proud of me and my scar and what I'd been through, that if people were ever talking about it she would turn me around and she would show them my scar.' Sarah's impact was so profound that when it came to Beatrice's wedding to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in July 2020, she decided to show off her scar to the world. She explained: 'It led to me feeling so confident that on my wedding day, I wore a dress that showed my scar to the world because I was like 'This is the coolest thing ever' because my mum had retrained my brain by her behaviour.' This isn't the first time Beatrice has spoken out about her personal activities in recent months. Earlier this week, she issued an apology after missing an event in London. She had been due to attend a ceremony hosted by the Oscar's Book Prize, but was unable to make it due to personal reasons, reports the Daily Express. Princess Beatrice has been a patron of the charity since March 2017 and has written about her difficulties with dyslexia. Opening up about her experience of being neurodivergent in the Evening Standard in 2017, she said: "I could not understand why I was still reading behind my classmates. It was at this point that stories became one of the key things which inspired me. 'I was lucky my mother, with her great imagination, took the time to work on these with me. By the time I read Harry Potter, aged 11, I tore through the pages.'
