Mad Diet

11/01/2026

TEN EASY STEPS TO STAY SHARP AND FEEL BETTER IN 2026… that won’t break the bank!

1. Make a big pot of soup with bone broth and veggies. Bake your own bread with organic flour – the stuff in supermarkets is usually full of crap and messes with the gut-brain axis.

2. Ditch cardboard cereals and eat eggs or organic porridge for breakfast instead. Swap sugary orange juice for a wee shot of beetroot.

3. Eat beef or lamb at least 3 times per week. Mince is affordable, versatile, and more easily digested. Look for the Scotch label so you know it’s grass-fed (higher vitamin E, omega-3, and CLA) and the animals are treated properly.

4. If you’re not eating oily fish take a supplement with both DHA and EPA. Avoid farmed salmon and go for herring and sardines – cleaner and more affordable.

5. Take vitamin D3 every day and don’t forget magnesium! If you’re not eating plenty of leafy greens, peas, beans, or nuts every day then take a magnesium supplement to hit the RDA.

6. Eat more broccoli and cabbage – it might make you fart but that’s the good bacteria in your gut partying like it’s 1999!

7. Buy clean wine. DOC prosecco and organic wines produced without glyphosate. Switch the crisps for nuts or olives.

8. Filter yer tap water and drink more milk. Bad halogens in drinking water displace iodine in the body wreaking havoc on thyroid, brain, and gut function. Half a pint of milk and a small pot of yoghurt provide adequate iodine each day.

9. Avoid sweeteners and cut right back on sugar. Use honey in tea and coffee instead. If you do have a sweet tooth, take plenty of vitamin C to help lower blood sugar levels.

10. Stop eating refined ‘vegetable’ oils. These industrial fats were developed to lubricate engines – not feed humans! Use olive oil, butter, and natural fats our ancestors have been eating for millennia.

Folks on these new weight loss jabs and those following a vegan lifestyle need to supplement with a whole bunch of nutrients.

If you eat like a bird or cut out major food groups it’s vital to top up on missing vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids.

Suzanne.x

08/01/2026

Following on from this week’s newsletter, we’ve created a wee infographic to help explain the latest clinical trials data coming from Vanderbilt University Cancer Centre.

Most of us are low on vitamin D and don’t consume enough magnesium plus colorectal cancer rates have risen sharply since the early 1990s, especially among younger people.

Keep an eye on yer inbox for more information on the latest science, what happened in the 1980s to exacerbate this rise, and how we can help protect ourselves with precision nutrition.

Happy New Year!

31/12/2025

2025 ROUND-UP (the year our grannies got it right!)

Turns out the auld ways are having a moment. This year the science finally caught up with what humans have known for, oh, about 5,000 years:

Full-fat dairy – not the devil on our plates.
Extra virgin olive oil – the great healer.
Honey – soothes way more than a cough.

Study after study in 2025 pointed in the same direction. These three traditional foods may significantly lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia – the leading cause of death in the UK.

No lab-grown nonsense. No ultra-processed crap. Just natural fats, beneficial bacteria, bioactive compounds and powerful polyphenols our brains can actually recognise.

These are foods we’ve eaten for thousands of years. Long before anyone thought of turning engine lubricant into edibles. Long before baldy-heided men in weird outfits told us to eat bugs. And long before misguided schoolgirls started brainwashing our kids.

This year’s scientific insights remind us that growing older doesn’t need to come with a side serving of panic. With a few lifestyle tweaks and proper food on the table – suddenly the future looks a lot less scary.

And speaking of hope – what about that last minute U-turn on IHT? Over 75,000 UK family farms are set to be saved all thanks to our efforts. When enough of us stand up for what is right, it really can change the course of history.

We are not helpless. We are incredibly powerful… and don’t they bloody well know it!

Once more of us remember what we already know – and understand the game being played – we’ll be cooking with gas in no time.

Let’s raise a glass at the bells tonight focused on brighter days to come.

Happy New Year!

Suzanne.x

24/12/2025

Love to all at this special time of year. The days are now getting longer and we have much to celebrate!

Thank you to everyone for their support in 2025. Have a wonderful Christmas and lang may yer lum reek!

Love and warmest wishes,

Suzanne & The Mad Diet Team. x

21/12/2025

GRAND FOR CHRISTMAS CHARITY PRIZE WINNER!

Thank you to everyone who took part in our annual Christmas charity giveaway. Some fantastic good causes nominated this year and we appreciate folks taking the time to enter.

Without further ado, we are delighted to announce this year’s winner is Catherine Forbes who nominated WomenCentre down in Yorkshire. Catherine will receive £500 cash and the charity will receive a £500 donation.

Catherine – please contact us at info@maddiet.co with your details. We will arrange a bank transfer to you plus the donation to WomenCentre tomorrow in time for Christmas!

Please join me in congratulating Catherine and thanks again to everyone for taking part.

Merry Christmas from all of us at the Mad Diet team in Glasgow.

Suzanne.x

18/12/2025

Please remember to enter our £1000 Christmas giveaway! Winner announced Sunday 21st on here. x

16/12/2025

GRAND FOR CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY - ENTER NOW!

It doesn’t feel like 12 months since Allison Wilson nominated Solway Disability Support for our Christmas donation. Time is flying by – I’ll be getting my bus pass soon!

Just like last year, we’re going with the usual 50/50 split…

💚 £500 donation to a UK registered charity
🎁 £500 for the person who nominates them

***To enter: please comment below with the name of a worthy UK registered charity and tell us why they deserve a festive boost this Christmas.***

🍷 All entries will go into the big wine glass and winner announced on here Sunday 21st December.
💷 Funds will be transferred on Monday 22nd December, just in time for Christmas.

Thank you for taking the time to enter and helping us spread a little love this yuletide.

Good luck to everyone and thanks again for your ongoing support.

Suzanne.x

PS – as always, please ignore any bad yins messaging you. The announcement will be made on this page on Sunday 21st December.x

14/12/2025

Last night I had a bit of an existential crisis whilst munching on M&S olive oil truffle crisps. It was one of those moments gasping for air out the backdoor wondering if oxygen actually exists… or anything else for that matter.

How many of us really stop and think about what this is and who we are… when we’re not three sheets to the wind?

Anyway, a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate a worthy cause – from community cafés and food banks to church lunch clubs. I know very few folks see my posts these days so thank you very much for taking the time.

Without further ado, we’re delighted to announce that the winner of a full case of our Early Harvest Extra Virgin Olive Oil (valued at £600) is:

***Violet Anne, who nominated The Bridge Café in Glenrothes***

Violet will also receive a bottle herself as a thank you for taking part!

A big shout out to the Fifers – not been up there in yonks! My mum was evacuated from Glasgow to Carnoustie during the war and we used to stop off in Auchtermuchty en route when visiting honorary aunties and uncles on our summer holidays in Angus.

Violet: please email info@maddiet.co with the contact name and details for the community café, and we’ll get the case sent out this week via Royal Mail tracked delivery.

Thank you again to everyone who took part – and please keep an eye on the page…

🎄 Next up: the BIG ONE – our Grand for Christmas Charity Giveaway 🎄

Please join us in congratulating Violet and the Bridge Café in Glenrothes and let’s keep the festive spirit going.

Love, love, and more love.

Suzanne.x

PS – even if we haven’t sussed it out down here, being kind is a good place to start.

PPS – those M&S olive oil truffle crisps are dangerous. Worse than pickled onion monster munch and jaffa cakes when ye’ve got the munchies… although I’ve no smoked the g***a since the 90s. Honest.

10/12/2025

Apologies in advance for the ground dog day posts but I’m getting tired of healthcare workers being gaslit on the telly.

The coin toss didn’t work this year and medical staff know the difference between J2 and K!

Here’s the alternative. www.maddiet.co

Vitamin D supplementation has been shown to reduce the incidence of acute respiratory infections in populations at risk. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of preventing viral infections in healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to assess the hypothesis that vitamin D3 suppl...

09/12/2025

Here’s a wee reminder for those who have wiped the past 5 years from their minds!...

PPIs, ACE inhibitors, corticosteroids, NSAIDs, certain antibiotics and even the contraceptive pill can all lower zinc levels. Those newfangled obesity shots alter zinc status too.

Foods with the highest zinc content include shellfish and beef (especially liver). Eggs and cheddar cheese are also good bioavailable sources.

Folk on veggie diets require adequate vitamin C to absorb zinc. This is because phytates in plant-based foods bind to zinc in the gut, making it harder for the body to use.

So, when lurgy strains mutate and the 'wotsits' don’t work we need to remember the importance of nutrition.

Getting our vitamin D levels up to par is a no-brainer but increasing our zinc intake is vital too. www.maddiet.co

07/12/2025

HELP US TO HELP OTHERS THIS CHRISTMAS (please respond – our posts are being censored again)

You know the world has gone to hell in a handcart when trying to give to charity ends up being censored. My last post reached less than 50 people out of 50k plus followers on here!

Granted I did shake the tree a bit during the beer bug debacle sharing some inconvenient truths. Peer-reviewed data which many more people now know to be true.

Yet here I am back on the naughty step. My words are silenced by algorithms (or non-human entities) programmed by geeks who would’ve had their baws booted at the school I went to!

Seriously, look at these dudes behind AI - their backgrounds, and what they actually believe. It’s a far cry from the value system we grew up with. I’ve read Ayn Rand books too – but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Christianity may have been orchestrated to pacify the masses but as a woman in the 21st century it suits me just fine. Constantine made it up as he went along, James VI/I doctored it for political gain, but it still resulted in women like me having the freedom we have today.

Why are we not celebrating Christendom and the liberty it affords?

There is little doubt the backbone of our society is well and truly dented. Alien docs on Netflix and kiddy-fiddling coverups on the news resulting in a mass exodus from pews. Our children are now influenced by black screens and dark actors instead of Aesop’s fables.

This spiritual void is doing us no good.

Last night there was a sold-out performance at Glasgow Cathedral celebrating the re-opening of a holy well. The sacred spring that healed our ancestors long before Christianity came to town.

The twinset and pearl brigade learned nothing about the ancestral roots of this well. The fact that people travelled far and wide for healing at the Moleninder spring long before St Mungo (the so-called founder of Glasgow) forced locals to convert or go without.

Today we face another existential crossroads which will no doubt be described as environmental migration by future historians. Just as nobody remembered King Morken kicking St Mungo out of Glasgow in the 6th century at last night’s ceremony in the Cathedral… why would anyone remember our own story of demographic change in another 1500 year’s time?

Anyway… if you have got this far, thank you for sticking with my drunken rant! We would like to give a case of early harvest olive oil from our finca (worth £600) to a worthy cause – food bank, elderly lunch club, church, or any community group who may benefit. Not just Glasgow – throughout the UK.

To enter: please state below the worthy group and why it may benefit.

The person who nominates will get a bottle of our EVOO too!

Winner announced Sunday 14th December on this page.

Thank you for taking part.

Suzanne.x

PS – King Morken was the king of Strathclyde and Cumbria in the 6th century – apparently a decent guy, the people liked him. St Mungo (Kerdigern) was the son of Princess Theneva (later named St. Enoch). She got up the duff out of wedlock and her dad wasn’t happy so he set her adrift pregnant on the Firth of Forth. She survived and was taken in by monks who raised her child. That child (after years of indoctrination) went on to change the course of history.

PPS – St Enoch’s square in Glasgow is named after a single mum! Thank gawd my daddy didn’t cast me out on the Clyde… and that I had the freedom to raise my boy to make his own mind up about whatever this is down here. x

30/11/2025

ORGANIC EVOO WINNERS!

Our first early harvest Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil giveaway has now closed and we’re delighted to announce the 10 winners!

A huge thank you to everyone who took part. Your comments, feedback, and ongoing support means the world to us. This year’s harvest has been a bumper one, and it’s a joy to share our green medicine with you.

Without further ado, the ten names picked from the big wine glass are:

***Judith Bryden, Theresa Adamson, Heather Duncan, Edina Street, Wendy Birse, Rhona MacInnes, Helen Edwards, Jayne KE Burnett, Jay Hart, Celia Low***

Please email info@maddiet.co with your name, address, and postcode, and we’ll ship your bottles this week via Royal Mail tracked delivery.

Thank you again for being part of our wee community. And keep yer eyes peeled for more festive giveaways over the coming weeks.

Please join me in congratulating the winners and helping us spread good health and festive cheer.

Happy St Andrew’s Day from us all at the Mad Diet team in Glasgow!

Sláinte!

Suzanne.x

PS - Next up is a special one – Pensioner Groups, Elderly Cafes, & Auld Yin’s Lunch Clubs! We’re giving away a full case of our EVOO (worth £600) to one community group – and the person who nominates the winning group will also receive a bottle. Please keep an eye on the page.x