Short term fixes, such as diets never seem to work. This is because one needs to adopt a permanent change in habits and thinking in order to truly change and get healthy. It took me a couple of years to really make dietary and lifestyle change, so I know it’s not easy.
From a physiological point [...]
I’m going to graduate as a nutritional therapist this summer – bringing to an end 5 years of continuous study, hooray! – and I have realised that I need to have a slightly more complex approach to the treatment of my clients. After all, we are complex beings.
Nutritional therapy is amazing, don’t get me wrong. [...]
I had an excellent lecture on cancer at the weekend. There is so much I could write about the treatment of cancer, but as a massage therapist and nutritional therapist to-be, cancer is contraindicated for both treatments. This is incredibly sad, as this is a time when people really need some extra support and advice.
Something [...]
Last wednesday evening BBC 1’s “One Show” aired a report on the body’s need for water, presented by a doctor (not sure what kind). She was obviously not a doctor of nutriton though.
The report set out to disprove the fact that 2 litres of water needs to be drunk in the form of pure water [...]
Carob is a chocolate subsitute used in raw food. I have been using it a lot lately in my experiments with raw foodie treats (see nutty balls of joy, etc).
The Scientific stuff
Carob comes from a tree and is a memeber of the pea family of plants. Carob is naturally sweet because it contains natural sugars, [...]
Following a recent lecture on ageing and degenerative diseases and experiences with my own grandmother have led me to start thinking about nutritonal care of the elderly lately.
It seems that so many ‘diseases’ that affect our elderly relatives can be contributed to, or even caused by poor nutrition and dehydration.
One such example of this is [...]
