Glastonbury is exhausting - you cover miles and miles and miles
| Published date | 14 April 2024 |
| Publication title | Sunday Sun |
The genial broadcaster, who joined Radio 1 in 1993 and currently presents a weekday evening Radio 2 show, doesn't look anywhere close to her 58 years, just like many people of her age the mum-of-four is feeling the march of time.
She's got arthritis in her fingers, she's keeping an eye on her cholesterol level, and her busy lifestyle means she feels more tired than she did when she was younger.
"I've got lots of niggles and aches, and though I'm hoping the arthritis is just contained to my fingers at the moment, I'm sure it'll get elsewhere eventually," she says ruefully.
"With the arthritis getting worse, and just being older, over the last year I feel like I've gone through a bit of a health overhaul and realised I need to eat better foods for energy levels - getting older, I get more tired because I work late at night.
"And also I'm doing my 90s Anthems gigs, which are really physically gruelling, and mean I don't get many days off in the week. But I just thought I'm going to really, really try and eat better food, so I'm eating loads of fruit - I pig out on blueberries all the time, and raspberries and strawberries and then lots of vegetables."
Jo became a pescetarian last year, joining her music executive husband Steve Morton, while her kids India, 31, Jude, 25, Cassius, 23, and Coco, 15, are all vegetarian or vegan. "It feels like the right thing to be doing and I feel really healthy for it," she says.
And she's doing her best to enhance her diet with healthy additions, explaining: "I had years of my mum saying 'you should be taking oils', and as you do, you dismiss everything your mum says. But now I'm taking turmeric and omega oil and cider vinegar, and magnesium to help me sleep at night.
"I'm throwing everything at it - everything I possibly can. I'm taking collagen as well. I'm waiting for the results and I'm ever optimistic. It's worth trying - I really will try anything." Her husband recently had his cholesterol checked, as both his parents had high cholesterol, and Jo says: "It turned out he has got high cholesterol, and he's really fit and sporty, so it was a bit of a shock. He was advised that medication might be the route he needs to take, and he very much didn't want to do that, so his instinct was to try and do it with diet."
Jo says Steve, 59, now avoids the wrong fats...
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