Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 runs this week, from 10-16 May. During the pandemic, millions of us have experienced a mental health problem, or seen a friend or loved one struggle during the lengthy lockdowns. The theme for this year is ‘Nature’. Over the past year, we’ve largely seen more...
Long Year. New Hope. Better Health. Wow! WHAT. A. YEAR! As December draws 2020 to a close, we look back on a year like never before! A year of challenge, uncertainty and often downright fear. 2020 has seen us locked down in a global pandemic, isolated within the four walls...
3 ways to help your immune resilience. In the UK we’re now joining our friends from Europe and other parts of the world and entering another period of isolation, anxiety and uncertainty. And at this time of year (autumn/winter in the UK) this heralds a period of not only emotional but...
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...
Will you stay healthy as Nature intended this winter and beat the bugs? When it comes down to it prevention is definitely better than cure… but I’m talking prevention as nature intended not flu jabs and the like. Staying healthy as Nature intended, comes from a food-and-lifestyle-as-medicine approach: eating real (mostly)...
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...
If it’s broken, fix it! Doctors estimate that around 80% of ill-health, chronic, degenerative and autoimmune conditions are diet and lifestyle-related – this means they’re fixable! Lifestyle and dietary changes can go a long way to reversing illness and creating much better health. But they’re not ‘quick-fixes’ – achieving true...
We are hard wired for walking, but our modern life not only chronically stresses our body, it keeps us chronically sedentary and sitting still all day long makes us less open and agreeable, more depressed… and less able to use our grey matter! As with our body… so with our...
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...
