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What has potassium got to do with chronic 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...
Silybin – Not so silly if you have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
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...
Are you sure it’s gluten intolerance?
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...
Nutrition and Our Immune System
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...
We said ‘No’ to insecticides on the olive trees. What happened next?
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...
Giving snacking a make-over
SNACKING: Can be vital, must be satisfying, never ‘wrong’ I asked a friend what topic I should cover in my blog and she suggested snacking because, right now, our emotions and eating patterns may be out of kilter and we might be doing a bit more snacking than usual....