Why regenerative agriculture is at the heart of our health. Mainstream opinions have argued for decades that the ‘organic’ movement is little more than an expensive middle-class privilege with no ’science’ behind it, can’t feed the world and unprofitable for farmers. “The argument that is often made against organic farming...
How to lose weight naturally – my #talkhealth interview with the talkhealth Partnership. talkhealth is a team of like-minded individuals, who are keen to provide the latest health information and support that is currently available. The team’s primary aim is to make health support easily accessible to everyone, offering interactivity between...
How I healed from arthritis. National Arthritis Week 2020 runs from 7-13 October and as I know from personal experience, it’s the biggest cause of pain and disability in the UK. In this post, I share how I healed from autoimmune arthritis with nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Around 10 million...
Diabetes Awareness Week. This week (8th – 14th June) is Diabetes Awareness Week in the United Kingdom. In recent decades, the numbers of people with diabetes in the UK has grown exponentially. The consequences for individuals can be very serious. The impact on the NHS is overwhelming its ability to...
5 Reasons Why Excessive Alcohol Consumption is NOT the Answer. Lockdown has seen us all missing out on many things we have always taken for granted in our lives – seeing friends and family, browsing the shops and, particularly in the glorious weather we’ve been experiencing lately, the opportunity to...
Am I really posting a shout-out for sugar? Am I going crazy? Well yes! And no! National Sugar Awareness Week (20-26 January) designed to “raise awareness of the health impacts of consuming excess sugar (and calories) and educating the public to help them to consume less. The aim of the...
The theme for diabetes awareness month and World Diabetes Day 2019 is Family and Diabetes. We are urged to learn more about the warning signs of diabetes and find out their risk of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) – recent research discovered that parents would struggle to spot this serious life-long condition in their...
“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...
