What makes a Healthy Diet

Jan 3, 2024 | Health and Wellness, Podcast

What makes a healthy diet? I believe it's just 5 simple ingredients. If eat these every day then you will feed your body with all it needs to boost your health, your energy and your wellbeing. The 5 ingredients are : Fluid Protein Colour Fibre Healthy Fat Read on to see why they are so important and listen to a bitesize Podcast episode for each one. 1. A healthy diet starts with hydration Our bodies are mostly water. Our total body composition is around 70% water, but more importantly that our...

Episode 101 – Your questions, answered

Aug 18, 2021 | Podcast

On my facebook page I asked if you had any questions for me and this week I answer them.

Episode 95 – Are you micro-managing your diet?

Jul 7, 2021 | Podcast

When we are controlling over food it can mean that we are not relaxed. And being relaxed is key to good digestion.

Wraps for lunch?

Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorised

Instead of sandwiches, how about wraps for an easy to eat and portable lunch?

Today is for living, don’t wait till tomorrow

Nov 12, 2018 | Self-Care

The Dalai Lama when asked what surprises him "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” I see this so often in my job, that people have very successful lives on the surface, they have good jobs,...

Don’t label yourself

Sep 27, 2018 | Uncategorised

What is our obsession with labelling everything? Is it tribal? Maybe its because I’m a nutrition advisor but food seems to be the area where we just love to label ourselves. Every new diet plan has a new name, and there seems to be a new one every week. We all rush to work with our specially selected preordained range of foods in our newly bought containers, and announce to anyone that is interested that we are on the new ‘madwoman diet’ and happily discuss how it’s making us feel healthier...

Why not take a pill for that?

Sep 8, 2018 | Uncategorised

I recently presented at my business networking group and one of the questions I was asked at the end was what I thought about the possibility of a pill that would deliver all our nutrition needs without us even having to eat. I took a deep breath, swallowed hard and replied ‘I think it’s sad, and I can’t imagine a world where I wouldn’t want to sit with family and friends and enjoy a meal.’ What I really wanted to say is ‘Did you listen to a word I’ve said in the last ten minutes?’. How could...