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Honey – the new hope or the new hype?
- Age Related Health Problems
- Antioxidants
- Farting/Flatulence
- Mental Health & Cognitive Function
How is honey made? Producing honey is hard work: a bee makes just a twelfth of a teaspoon in her lifetime. Female foraging worker bees collect nectar from flowers. When…
Big fat lies
- Obesity and Overweight
In March 2014, national headlines declared “Saturated fat ‘ISN’T bad for your heart‘” suggesting it is safe to gorge on butter, cheese and sausages. However, the study in question got the…
Out with the Old!
- Dairy
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Heart Disease & Stroke
- Meat
- Obesity and Overweight
- Sweets & Salt & Junk Food
- Wholegrains
Viva! Health have been campaigning for change for years and it’s been a long time coming, but it seems things are beginning to change. Public Health England (PHE) has completely…
Be sure about B12
- Age Related Health Problems
- Heart Disease & Stroke
- Vitamins and Minerals
Petition – Processed and red meat to carry a health warning label
- Cancer
- Meat
In October 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that processed meat products cause cancer and were classified as Group 1 carcinogens – substances causing cancer to humans. Red meat…
Life Just Got Better
- Blood Pressure
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Diets
- Digestion
- Heart Disease & Stroke
- Mental Health & Cognitive Function
- Obesity and Overweight
- Osteoporosis
A healthy vegan diet is based on fruit and vegetables, wholegrains, pulses (lentils, beans, soya, chickpeas), nuts and seeds (with the obligate addition of vitamin B12 supplement). There are endless…
Vegan Dietitian Goes Low FODMAP!
- Diets
- Digestion
I am a Registered Dietitian who also happens to be a vegan. As my professional interest is in the dietary treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) using the Low FODMAP…
Cancer – the truth at last
- Cancer
UK academics are publicly acknowledging that a vegan diet helps to protect us from cancer and that high levels of meat and dairy are linked to colorectal, oesophageal, bladder, breast, prostate, gastric, ovarian, kidney and pancreatic cancers – amongst others.
Coconut oil…
- Fibre
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Nuts and Seeds
Apparently it can help you lose weight, stave off all manner of illnesses and even prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Previously shunned for its high saturated fat content, coconut oil has experienced…
Joint venture
- Arthritis
Never mind the text books, what does rheumatoid arthritis really feel like? I found out through the Healing Well arthritis forum: “I feel like I’ve been run over by a…