by admin | Mar 21, 2024 | Gut Health, Happy Healthy Eating, Sustainable eating, Uncategorized
Is there always some food or food group that you’re cutting out of your diet? How often do we hear announcements such as ‘I’m not eating carbs this week’. We are surrounded by a culture of food demonisation. What could be more anxiety inducing than a message in...
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 | 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 | Oct 14, 2020 | Happy Healthy Eating
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....
by admin | Aug 14, 2020 | Gut Health, Happy Healthy Eating, Uncategorized
Studies on elite athletes and their gut bacteria have recently caught my eye, not because I’m a sports specialist or have deluded aspirations of Olympic success but because it is yet more evidence for the all-encompassing role which our gut plays in our health and...
