This week’s guests certainly need no introduction, as famous for their morning swims as they are for their healthy produce - and they’re back in January focusing on a Happy Health Plan using a plant-based diet.
The Happy Pears, David and Stephen Flynn, join me to explain all the benefits and bust some of the myths about it.
They also have some great tips and advice for eating and introducing more healthy foods into your daily routine.
“First thing is if you do want to change your habits, get the stuff you don t want to eat out of your house,” they tell me. “That s number one because in moments of weakness, stress, you will resort to those things.
The Happy Pear, also known as Stephen and David Flynn, are among the most successful people to have come out of the food business in Ireland in recent years..
The water temperature is around 9°C - far from freezing - but there s something about jumping straight in that feels like being hit in the chest with a lump hammer. I ve been cold before but truthfully nothing like this.
This is the kind of cold that soaks right through to your bones in seconds. It s so cold, in fact, that getting out of the water and standing dripping on the stony beach feels positively warm. And yet, at 8.20am on a grey Thursday morning in December, there are around 30 people at the cove in Greystones, Wicklow, to partake of this daily ritual.
The water temperature is around 9°C far from freezing but there’s something about jumping straight in that feels like being hit in the chest with a lump hammer. I’ve been cold before but truthfully nothing like this.
This is the kind of cold that soaks right through to your bones in seconds. It’s so cold, in fact, that getting out of the water and standing dripping on the stony beach feels positively warm. And yet at 8.20am on a grey Thursday morning in December, there are around 30 people at the cove in Greystones to partake of this daily ritual.
Who are we? What interests us, in this age of plague? To understand the world today, let s look at the non-fiction books coming in 2021. A pattern of transformation runs through next year s non-fiction releases: the pandemic has changed the human race. We have new priorities and a different perspective. Where do we go from here?
Feminist titles focus on the power of female independent living; and writers on race look at harnessing the energy of the Black Lives Matter movement to turn protest into progress. Working-class voices rise.
Parenting gets a reality check, with new releases providing the unvarnished truth, and mental health books have a no-nonsense edge in challenging times. Other themes in 2021 are the internet, medicine, women s histories, nature, Northern Ireland, and the fight for Irish independence.