by admin | Aug 31, 2023 | Diabetes, Happy Healthy Eating, Uncategorized
I have a lot of people, who don’t have diabetes, asking me whether it is normal that their blood glucose levels rise (spike) after a meal? So let me explain in case you were wondering too. The reason they know this is happening is because they’ve been using a...
by admin | Feb 9, 2023 | Happy Healthy Eating, kidney disease
I get a lot of questions on this topic and I’m not surprised. A search on ‘potassium and kidney disease’ is likely to leave you feeling confused and convinced that every last jot of potassium needs to be removed from your diet. Many people who come to me are under the...
by admin | Jun 3, 2021 | Fatty liver disease, Gut Health, Uncategorized
I put a post out on social media at the end of last year asking if anyone had a topic they would like me to cover in a blog. I thought that this suggestion was an excellent one because non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is frequently diagnosed, often as the...
by admin | May 26, 2021 | Gut Health
Undoubtedly many people believe they are gluten intolerant and I am not here to tell them they don’t know their own bodies. However, in spite of it being much talked about in the media, I still encounter a lot of confusion around the topic. The fact is that foods that...
by admin | Dec 27, 2020 | Happy Healthy Eating
I thought I’d write something on our immune systems. Everyone’s doing it and I was feeling a bit left out! You may want to grab a cup of tea (and maybe a dark chocolate brownie). We’ve got a lot to talk about. Of course, most of us are rightly concerned at the...
by admin | Dec 1, 2020 | Sustainable eating
I have become increasingly drawn to books which reveal, what has been known by ancient cultures for eons but which is only now being proven by research, that we humans are inextricably linked with every other living thing on this planet. Hence, whatever we do has a...