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22 May 2017
Posted by BonnieF 
An award-winning family travel, style and food blogger, Becky is a 40-something mum of two strapping lads, who’s mad about wine, crazy about travel and mastermind behind Englishmum.com. Here she talks about the world of healthy eating and asks if it’s getting out of control... How do you eat? It...
Read more → 07 Apr 2017
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Does your blood type really hold the key to the types of foods that will work best for you? Blood group diets are not new, the brainchild of Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo who published his thoughts in his book Eat Right 4 Your Type, they work on the premise that your blood type is linked to your genetic...
Read more → 30 Jan 2017
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From fashion and modelling to nutrition and healthy eating, Gabriela Peacock has done the glitz, glamour and fad diets, and now she’s keeping things real and helping others to do the same… What makes your work special? I love what I do as a nutritionist and seeing the positive effects it has on my clients...
Read more → 19 Sep 2016
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Once upon a time fat was the major enemy in everyone’s diets. These days it’s sugar, or more specifically, refined sugars. So why are we being told to avoid it and what are the natural alternatives? Why avoid refined sugar? It makes you tired After an initial hit, triggering insulin levels and giving...
Read more → 21 Jul 2016
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Ever heard of FODMAP diets? Here’s what it’s all about! Claire Wylde is a Dietitian based in Surrey running clinics at the BMI Runnymede Hospital in Chertsey, The BMI Syon Clinic in Middlesex and The Priory Hospital in North London. A lot of her work includes patients with allergies, coeliac...
Read more → 13 Jul 2016
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Earlier this year we got the dietician’s take on veganism as a diet and lifestyle choice. Following the release of his new book Eaternity, author Jason Wrobel talks about how he became vegan and why... How did you first become interested in veganism? The initial seed of inspiration to become...
Read more → 03 Jun 2016
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Coeliac disease and gluten intolerances often get bundled into the same basket, but there’s a very real difference between them says dietician Claire Wylde... Nowadays, there is such a high demand for gluten free food. It’s really easy to find gluten free recipe books. The free-from aisle is bigger...
Read more → 06 May 2016
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IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) is such a complicated problem. It can be horrid and life limiting for people living with it and treating it can vary from one person to the next, as with everything. Here, Grayshott Spa’s nutritional therapist Stephanie Moore explains some of the small changes you can make...
Read more → 08 Jan 2016
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Good nutrition is at the core of any kind of healing and recuperation from injuries to surgery, as Grayshott Spa and Hotel explains - you are what you eat! Following surgery or a prolonged illness the immune system, the tissues and the metabolism all have to regulate and restore. Without good...
Read more → 13 May 2015
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Charlotte Watts, author of The De-Stress Effect, breaks down all the jargon and explains which health myths we need to ignore and why... Weight loss is always highly discussed and has often fallen back on old myths that involve pushing our bodies harder than feels right and following faddy diets...
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