As I always tell my clients: Not all calories are created equally.⠀What do you think is going to serve your health goals more?⠀245 calories from a 48g snickers bar vs 245 calories from eating a piece of chicken with some veg?⠀What nutrients, vitamins and minerals does it offer you?⠀What about the unhelpful load it has…
Category: Nutritional Therapy
75 Different Pseudonyms for Sugar
Yes. 75! Are any of these in your products? If any of these are listed in the ingredients label of a processed food product, that means you have NOT got a sugar-free product. Apart from the usual suspects (junk food type snacks), these are extremely commonly listed in many ‘healthy’ food products. ‘Fat-free’ or ‘low-fat’…
Sugar in Savoury Products?Always Read The Label!
Always read the ingredients!⠀If you are buying a product which is being marketed as ‘healthy’ or ‘low fat’ and it has sugar listed in it’s ingredients…don’t you think that warrants a little reflection?⠀It’s not necessary for products to have sugar in them, yet it’s everywhere.⠀Do you wonder why that is? If you don’t, you should!…
Fat cells: Where toxins like to hang out.
Did you know this is where toxins get stored by the body? Now you do. When toxins enter the body, especially synthetic ones like additives, chemicals, fake hormones, pollution, etc., your body can have a tough time figuring out what to do with these things. Because they’re not made of ‘organic’ material which the body…
When you want crisps/chips but you don’t want to fall off the wagon – here’s what to have instead:
Craving crisps? I was always more of a savoury crisp person rather than a sweets and chocolate gal. I still crave for that crunchy, savoury taste, but I want to eat something which is going to nourish me and not pull me into a bloated gut! Here’s what you can have instead. Rice cakes (made…
Not following your intuition might be contributing to your IBS
On first impressions:⠀Do you know that feeling of distrust or recoil when you meet a stranger, even one who is behaving impeccably? If you don’t, it’s probably because you override seemingly inexplicable intuitions about people, preferring to concentrate on more rational ways of judging them.⠀Do you agree?⠀Do you find it hard, or easy to trust…
Coffee-free September Challenge!
If you have been following me since the beginning of the year, you’ll see that I’ve talked extensively about how coffee has benefits as well as downfalls on our physiology – some of us experience the pits of coffee a bit more than others.⠀I’m one of these people 🙋🏻♀️⠀I made the decision to give up…
𝑻𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝑪𝑶𝑺, 𝑷𝑴𝑺, 𝑶𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑪𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝑴𝒂𝒏-𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒃𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑰𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔? 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒖𝒕.
Yes, again and again. Did you know that people who suffer from the above generally have large numbers of bad bacteria in their gut? These bad bacteria strains release enzymes which put back together broken down, used oestrogen and then recirculate them in your system 🤢 That means not only is your metabolism and detoxification…
𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒉, 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒈𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍, 𝑨𝑺𝑨𝑷.
A simple change which can improve hormone balance for everyone, of any sex, at any life stage (men, this goes for you too). Whether you have:-PCOS-man boobs-painful periods-swelling before & during your periods, -problems with building muscle & fat loss,-endometriosis,-ovarian cysts,-fibroids,-low sex drive,-hot flushes, Every time you eat a processed meal like cereals, crackers, biscuits,…
𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔
So you might have identified with being high or low in oestrogen. But why the f**k is that happening in the first place?? 𝕆𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕖𝕟 𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕘𝕙 𝕚𝕗: -You’re on most contraceptive pills -you store and heat your food up in plastic & aluminium. -you use beauty products which contain synthetic (fake) oestrogen (basically, most make…