Category «Nutrition»

What is Food intolerance ?

Food intolerance is relatively a new concept, and can be difficult to understand. Even most doctors have a poor understanding of it, particularly when there is a mixture of signs and symptoms that do not belong in the same disease group or there is no pathological explanation. Common complaints such as headaches, bloating and tiredness …

Which Diet, Fasting or Calorific ?

This January Many people are thinking about weight loss you are not alone.  Its when many  try to shed a few pounds with the aim to have health and happiness.  For some, this is a regular New Year event, the main reason being making a positive change in their life or a variety of reasons. …

Your Body’s More Than Your Instrument–It’s An Orchestra

Seeking to maintain or restore good health?  Think harmony–not tune-up or repair. Illness is dissonance.   The holistic practitioner does more than focus on wrong notes.  He/she undertakes a detailed examination of the body’s many systems to discover where and how they have stopped working properly together. Patients are sometimes surprised by the questions a holistic …

Should you be Adding these to your Food ?

Flavourings and preservatives have been used for centuries to enhance the taste and freshness of food. Do you wonder if they may be unsafe to eat?, or have you tried to identify all the additives that are in your food ? Additives are not naturally found in food. They serve a number of purposes; Colours  …

Rheumatoid arthritis, Acupuncture and Diet

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes pain, stiffness, inflammation of the joints, joint deformity and reduced physical function. Autoimmune disorders are characterised by the body’s immune system attacking healthy body tissue. Both T- and B- immune cells are implicated in the underlying pathology due to overproduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines.  Inevitably, it …

Spring into Health !

Finally, spring may have just sprung. The long, cold and damp winter has not been kind to our bodies with exacerbations of arthritic and rheumatic pains and nasty cold and flu viruses in the air. Dark and cloudy days and staying mostly indoors have deprived us of sunlight and vitamin D. Your body may need …

Feeling Tired, Breathless, Dizzy and Pale

If you are experiencing abnormal tiredness and general weakness which does not seem to remedy with added rest; you become breathless and/or dizzy; People say you look unusually pale; there may be palpitations, headaches, brittle nails, poor appetite, swollen feet and leg pains. Then you may be Anaemic. Anaemia is most common (but not exclusive) …

‘Spring’ into action; Act on Allergies

Puffy eyes, Runny nose, Sneezing and headaches…..  ? Slowly but surely we are moving into the allergy season. The combination of sun, fresh flowers and grass and warm air could be the end of a good spring or summer. Good News! although the seasons are unavoidable, the need for antihistamines and a constant supply of …

Happy New (sugar-free) Year !

If there is one New Year’s resolution that we should all make is, drastically reduce the amount of sugar we have in our diet. Why ?…. because it is strongly linked with causing cancer. Shockingly this was discovered in a study nearly 50 years ago – but since the research was funded by the sugar …

Gluten-Free Bread Alternatives

Whenever I advise my clients to avoid Gluten, I feel the pain and inconvenience that they will be experiencing.  Little do they realise how difficult it can be to be Gluten-Free (GF). It may be surprising but many only consider bread to contain gluten, and unaware that common foods like cake, biscuits, cereal, pasta, spaghetti …