Celebrity chef and healthy-eating guru Nick Nairn has said a health scare has made him eat his own words.

The Michelin Star winner has revealed he is suffering from high blood pressure, and blames an unhealthy diet the stress of his hectic schedule.

The 57-year-old said that he realises he should have practised what he preached about the need for good food.

However, writing in the Sunday Times, Nairn said that instead he threw himself into the launch of his new Cook School in Aberdeen, along with corporate and media work.

He said: "My receipt guide was full of healthy ideas but my own diet started to suffer.

"I've always eaten well, cooking from scratch using the best ingredients. But going back and forth to Aberdeen and up and down to London, it seemed that more and more meals were taking place in petrol stations and airports rather than the kitchen table.

"Now I'm paying the price."

The 57-year-old said a recent trip to his GP had found that he was suffering high blood pressure for the first time. He described the 'curse of so many Scots' was not something that believed would afflict him, he added.

He added: "It was a sobering moment in my life. Somehow the youngest Scottiush chef to win a Michelin star had ended up falling into the oldest Scottiush trap of too much stress, work and alcohol and not enough healthy nourishment."

Nairn added: "The healthier Scotland message message I have preached face-to-face has come back to haunt me."

He has since pledged to change his lifestyle and is looking at finding new ways to help those with dietary and health problems.