Shop local – now more than ever. The rise of supermarkets during the second half of the 20th century (which has continued unabated into the 21st) has been phenomenal. The convenience of a one-stop-shop is undeniable, but at what cost? I came across this interesting article from the Sustainable Food...
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...
World Milk Day – 1st June 2020. Monday 1st June is World Milk Day 2020. Established 20 years ago, World Milk Day recognises and celebrates the importance of milk as a global food, actively promoting the benefits of milk and dairy products around the world, including how dairy supports the livelihoods of...
LET’S EDUCATE BEFORE WE MEDICATE! Building our immune resilience is the key to reducing the risk or recovering from illnesses and viruses such as the devastating Covid-19. Of course, we must protect ourselves and each other with important hygiene measures like thorough hand-washing… but we must face the fact that...
💪 Immune Resilience #23: Raw Milk – A Healthy Food. Today there is a growing trend to demonise dairy – particularly milk – as a problem food and replace it with a whole variety of non-dairy alternatives and manufactured milk made from oats, soya, almonds and so on. And in...
💪Immune Resilience #22: How to Buy Local and Sustainable Food. Buying local and sustainable food is one of the key messages in The Real Food Solution – why and how local, seasonable real food, cooked from scratch is a powerful medicine for people and planet. The Covid-19 pandemic is bringing...
Immune Resilience #21: Immuno-Rejuvenation with REAL FOOD?! I’m excited to share this fascinating interview which puts a wide lens on the future of using food as preventative and interventive medicine. Can we really use food as medicine to rejuvenate our immune system? Dr Jeffery Bland, known as the inspirational ‘father’ of functional and...
Immune Support #12: A Nutrient-Dense Meals Matrix. In her recent blog, Diana Rogers RD, real food dietician, author, sustainability advocate and documentary film-maker of Sacred Cow – The Case for Better Meat (to be released this year) shows us how we can use The Nutrivore Meal Matrix to make nutritious meals...
Immune Support #9: Adapting to COVID-19. This is an EXCELLENT video from my friends at the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANHI). Dr Rob Verkek and Meleni Aldridge, explaining some of the fundamentals of how Covid-19 virus works in the body and how we can encourage our immune system to adapt...
