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Nutrition - Christmas a summary and a recipe
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This is the last blog of the year before we have a break for the Christmas holidays.
Nutrition: fitness and cancer
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
Hi everyone, I wish all of you a good new year, a time for renewed vigour and determination perhaps, certainly a time when most people take stock of themselves and look for ways to improve what has been going on.
Nutrition - fish in the diet?
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
Should I eat or avoid fish? This is a question I am so often asked. There are a few concerns that people can have.
Nutrition - Insulin growth factor (IGF-1)
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This week I am going to look at something called Insulin growth factor or IGF-1. It is a bit of a scientific blog this week, I hope you follow it and it makes sense to you – if not then please let me know and I can provide a further breakdown for you.
Nutrition: Cookery day Raw cooking
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This week I thought I would share with you my participation in a cookery day held at the Nutrition Centre in Wokingham.
Nutrition - Juicers and Juicing
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This blog is a follow on from last week when we looked at The Raw Food diet and I introduced you to a few recipes and new foods that you may find worth trying.
Nutrition - Smoothies
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
Last week we looked and juicing and juicers and this week I thought it would be a good idea to look at smoothie as another option.
Nutrition The 2 day diet
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This week I wanted to write a blog on the article that ran last week in the Daily Mail newspaper on the new 2 day diet.
Nutrition: soya and cancer
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This week I thought we could look at soya as it is quite a controversial subject and one of great interest to those with hormone driven cancers simply because there is so much written on the subject.
Nutrition: processed meat part 2
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
This week I thought that I would continue the theme of processed meat reported in the recent headlines and the research behind them.
Nutrition - Processed meat part 1
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
I am sure that you would agree that it has been difficult to ignore the headlines this week about processed meat and the potential risk of heart disease and cancer.
Nutrition and Easter
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
Hi everyone. Easter this week and of course the time for chocolate and chocolaty treats. Not an easy time if you are trying to eat well and keep blood sugar balanced is it?
Nutrition and chocolate
Date: Friday 04 May 2018
As I mentioned last week following the Chocolate Easter recipes that we could have a close look at chocolate and its relationship with our health and cancer.
Nutrition and sleep
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
The importance of a good night’s sleep is often underrated but yet lack of sleep is a problem that seems to affect so many people.
Basic intro to healthy eating
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
I designed this blog post to be a basic introduction for more detail to follow in future blogs.
Recipes to freeze ahead
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
Following on from the chicken broth recipe and preparing for Chemotherapy, in this blog I thought I would include other nourishing comforting recipes that could be frozen ahead of treatment.
Nutrition before cancer treatment begins
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
People I see waiting to start chemotherapy are often concerned about how they can get themselves in the best possible shape so that they can hopefully cope with the treatment better and secondly what practical things can they do to prepare.
Superfoods
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
This week I want to focus on the television programme that ran on Thursday 21st of August on ITV at 7.30. The title of the programme was ‘Superfoods are they fact or myth’.
Simple tea recipes
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
As I promised last week here are some very simple recipes for herb/fruit teas that have great benefits.
Nuts!
Date: Thursday 03 May 2018
I thought that this would be a very good topic for a blog simply because when I do cookery demonstrations or talk to people about diet the subject of nuts always comes up.
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