April is Stress Awareness Month in the UK. Stress Awareness Month has been held every April since 1992 to increase public awareness about both the causes and cures for our modern stress epidemic. Despite this running for 20 years there’s still a LONG way to go. According to the Mental...
Every 7th April is designated by the World Health Organisation as World Health Day. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for...
Many of us resolve to avoid alcohol – at least for the month of January. More of us are concerned that our alcohol consumption has crept up over the years and want to cut down or cut it out altogether. As a health coach, I’m seeing that for more of...
“You can’t have one, you can’t have one, you can’t have one without the other….” Holistic wellbeing and homeostasis To keep us healthy, our body constantly strives to maintain a state of internal, physiological balance – homeostasis. Holistic wellbeing is about paying attention to how key elements of our external...
Are we becoming more intolerant to the foods we’re eating? Few of us can have escaped the tragic story of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, a teenager who died after she suffered a fatal allergic reaction to sesame seeds which were present (but unlabelled) in a sandwich she bought at a well-known chain. ...
Type 2 diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions. There are 3.9 million people living with diabetes – 90% of those of being affected by Type 2 diabetes and one in THREE UK adults has prediabetes, the condition that precedes diabetes. World Diabetes Day – November 14 Every year, on 14th November...
How often do we sit at our work desks feeling our energy evaporate, our productivity tumble and our sense of well-being vanish as the day goes on? I know I do… all too frequently! And whether we’re in an office environment, or work from home, a desk-based job doesn’t lend...
We used to think that stress was a ‘brain-state’… but we now know that stress messes with the state of our ‘gut’ too. What is stress? STRESS is our body’s physiological response to a perceived threat. Any physical, emotional or environmental stressor can provoke our sympathetic nervous system’s ‘fight and...
“Stress is not a state of mind… it’s measurable and dangerous, and humans can’t seem to find their off-switch” – Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky in the documentary Stress: Portrait of a Killer. The International Stress Awareness Week (5 – 9 November) highlights the impact that chronic stress has on...
As we head into autumn and the nights draw in and the days become shorter, we intuitively begin to follow our natural craving for warming, grounding foods like thick soups, heavier stews and root vegetables. There is nothing healthier and more restorative (or more delicious) than sourcing truly organic (preferably...
