Happy New Year. This aims to be an inclusive post as essential micronutrients apply to everyone, whatever you choose to eat and wherever you live. I personally believe that by providing context with information, you can build a fuller picture of what healthy eating means, specifically to you. The benefits of improved diet are many,Continue reading “Quick and easy information for new year’s health eating resolutions”
Category Archives: Nutrition
Optimised Nutrition For Prevention, Protection and Pro-active Health
An increasing amount of people today know that official diet advice is phony, putting industry interests before public health. The state of capitalism today is that corporates have a legal obligation to their shareholders to keep driving up their profits and driving down or off-loading their costs. This means that multinational corporations who produce, prepare,Continue reading “Optimised Nutrition For Prevention, Protection and Pro-active Health”
Macronutrients, Genes and Regaining Control of Our Own Bodies
There is a lot we can tell about the foods, which nourish us by combining knowledge about macronutrients with your own life experiences with food. When it comes to our own health, fitness and body shape, nothing beats objective research to find answers. Sadly, we all have a jungle of misinformation, conflicts of interests andContinue reading “Macronutrients, Genes and Regaining Control of Our Own Bodies”
Secret to Balancing Calories, Activity and Nutrition for Health
While we face the amplifying affects of COVID-19 on our innate health, with a greatly strained NHS, official health bodies do anything but provide the information we need for optimal health. However, independent organisation Public Health Collaboration have published a guide to healthy eating, which addresses the incorrect advice given by Public Health England. BeforeContinue reading “Secret to Balancing Calories, Activity and Nutrition for Health”
Why Eating For Nutrition Gets More Important As We Age
Do you remember feeling sick on family holiday holidays as a child? Were you cautious about the milk in France or Spain? Did it taste funny? Did you have a constantly runny nose throughout your school days? Today, one-size-fits-all diet advice is causing a huge amount of chaos. People of all different sizes, ages, womenContinue reading “Why Eating For Nutrition Gets More Important As We Age”
How to Maintain our Weight and Health During Lockdowns
This story is an attempt at pulling many different threads together to create a whole picture of how human nutrition governs our mental and physical health and our body shape. I can’t ask if you’d prefer the good or bad news first, so will just go for it. Rather than peppering the flow with citations,Continue reading “How to Maintain our Weight and Health During Lockdowns”
The vital role of micronutrients through food for recovery
Amongst all the wellbeing and health messages out there, which just tell you “what?” not “Why?” food is seldom written about in a health context. Food plays the most vital role in health besides water and sunlight. Skip Intro Eating for Recovery Meal Ideas Supplements – when to take a short cut Introduction Modern medicineContinue reading “The vital role of micronutrients through food for recovery”
When Nutrition and Healthy Food is Not Personal
It seems as if all diet advice comes with assumptions. It’s either ‘eat less of’ or ‘reduce your portion sizes’. Less than what? Smaller than what? Somehow, diets have all become about reducing and restricting. They follow linear thinking: ‘eat less to lose weight’ rather than ‘eat less to be malnutritioned’. Malnourishment and malnutrition areContinue reading “When Nutrition and Healthy Food is Not Personal”
Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart in Nutrition
Do you find that if you mention weight loss, most people will respond with ‘eat less, exercise more’. This is trotting out the official government recommendations without pause. Most healthy eating apps, except Cron-o-meter and Fooducate plus ones that provide micronutrient information in foods such as Nutrition Facts and Nutrition Info, feature millions of foodsContinue reading “Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart in Nutrition”
We Need the Whole Picture Before We Change Our Body Weight
As the diet industry makes so much money from consumers doing all the work with a distorted view of the truth, many books, tools, articles, programs and even public health initiatives all keep up the lies that mislead us. Whether you are overweight, the right weight or underweight, you may still be healthy or not.Continue reading “We Need the Whole Picture Before We Change Our Body Weight”
Nutritious Meal Ideas 