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So, what exactly IS a nutritional therapist?
Despite rising awareness of alternatives in health, this is a question I get asked a lot. Within the bubble of fellow nutritionists and alternative health practitioners, it’s easy to forget that there’s still plenty of people (the majority?) who have… Continue reading
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Musings on the Changing of the Seasons
Well, autumn (fall) has come around again and, as much as I love the long balmy evenings of the summer, I am ready to embrace the cooler climes, darker nights and riot of reds, orange and gold that go with… Continue reading
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Going gluten-free: How I cut out gluten and reintroduced it (hoorah)!
My partner has been gluten-intolerant for a couple of decades. He cited some savage antibiotic courses when he had that pesky stomach bacteria H Pylori. Since then, despite taking probiotics, he has never been the same. He is also reluctant… Continue reading
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To sleep, perchance to dream…
Hot nights and a lot of daylight means sleep is proving elusive right now, as it has done frequently throughout my life. There’s not much I don’t know about sleep hygiene but I don’t always practise it, even though the… Continue reading
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Oily fish and how to get them into your diet
I’ve just got back from a week’s holiday in Greece, and one of the BIG highlights was the food. I think I ate oily fish most days! As a Nutritional Therapist, it’s one of my chief considerations when analysing a… Continue reading
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Vitamin C: A deep(ish) dive into the reason the English were called ‘limeys’ and what we have in common with guinea pigs
Most people know that if you don’t get enough vitamin C, you get scurvy (major sign: bleeding from everywhere) but did you know that the Americans called English people ‘limeys’ because of the habit of carrying limes (and other citrus)… Continue reading
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Nutritionist, heal thyself
It’s been one of those six years of my life. And my life has never been of the particularly smooth, first-world-problem variety. In the last six years, I’ve experienced what might gently termed as a ‘complex’ bereavement, the enforced isolation… Continue reading
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Seasonal perspective: What is the ‘hungry gap’?
No, it’s not the often-lengthy space between lunch and dinner. In this part of the world, the UK, due to our northerly temperate position, there is a ‘gap’ when fewer foods are available for harvest. If you want to try… Continue reading
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Thoughts on a sandwich
Ah, the great British sandwich. Invented in 1762 by the eponymous Earl of Sandwich, and a staple of lunches up and down this land and pretty much every other in the western world since then. Don’t get me wrong, I… Continue reading
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