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...
World Sleep Day is an annual, global call to action on the importance of healthy sleep. The focus of WSD is to raise awareness of the many burdens of sleep problems, as well as the importance of healthy sleep. World Sleep Day 2019 will incorporate the slogan ‘Healthy Sleep, Healthy Ageing’ which...
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...
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...
The UK Government has decided that flour in the UK is to be fortified with folic acid after ministers were convinced by their health advisers that it would reduce the risk of babies developing spina bifida and other conditions that involve severe disability or death. Well, sadly this is NOT...
When health advocates encourage us ‘eat a rainbow’ and ‘ditch the beige’, they mean us to eat as wide a variety of colourful foods every day and avoid beige processed and engineered foods like bread, toast, pizza, sandwiches and cereals. Why? Well, apart from the fact that processed foods are...
The saying “You are what you eat” has scarcely been more apt. We live in an age of fast food, ultra-processed food-like substances and fake GMO ‘foods’. You name it – actually scratch that, you likely can’t name it. Much of the ‘food’ available to us is manufactured with unpronounceable...
These top five herbal teas for women’s health are truly restorative on every level. Here, in the UK we have a saying,” everything stops for tea!” and indeed, kicking back with a cup (china, of course) of quality loose leaf tea (no dusty teabags, please) is not only a national...
