Category: nutrition
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Boost Your Health: The Benefits of Eating Green Vegetables
Everywhere you look health experts are telling us to eat more green vegetables. So why do they keep banging on about it? Most vegetables are green. It’s to do with photosynthesis (remember your school biology) The plant takes the sun’s rays, carbon dioxide and water and through photosynthesis produces oxygen and energy in the form…
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Confession of a Nutrition Therapist
I have a small confession to make… I don’t really like eating I’m actually not much of a ‘foodie’ at all. Eating for me is just fuel. And because I have to do it, I feel it might as well be the best stuff I can afford so I get the most out of something…
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The Importance of Potassium in a Healthy Diet
In my recent blog about Apple Cider Vinegar (HERE) I said that the reason us well being types like ACV is because of it’s potassium content, and I thought, maybe I should explain a little about that because it’s really simple and could make a huge difference as to why you feel tired and crap…
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The Health Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar Explained
Vinegar, love it or hate it, it’s something of a miracle of nature! It was first mentioned for preservation and healing at least 7000 years ago in Babylon, the Romans and Greeks used it to treat scurvy and the Roman armies used it as an antiseptic for wounds and as a tonic to drink. In…
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7 Tips for a Healthy Body
1 Start the day with a big cup of lemon and ginger water before anything else. During the night your liver has been working hard to cleanse, you’ve been asleep for maybe 7 or 8 hours and naturally you will be dehydrated. Lemon is very alkalising to the body so this helps the liver to…
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Nutritional Guidance
Modern life is full. Work, family, friends, hobbies, emails, social media, YouTube, TV, games, we all feel the need to ‘keep up’. And in the process our health suffers. We forget to drink water, we eat processed ready made food and drink coffee to make up for our lack of energy. We feel tired all…