Nutrition & Health Insights
Foods
- diabetes, Foods, General, Vitamins
A new study shows that eating one mango a day may improve blood sugar and body composition in people with prediabetes. Here’s why the whole food matrix matters more than sugar counts. Not All Sugar Is Equal If you’ve ever been told to “watch your fruit intake” because of sugar, [...]
- Foods, Gut, IBS
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), the two main forms being Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, affect more than 300,000 people in the UK. These conditions are a result of problems with the immune system which lead to inflammation in the lining of the gut. Gut microbes and their metabolites (substances produced [...]
- Foods
There is no doubt that a high sugar diet is detrimental to health. Sugar occurs naturally in many foods and is added to most processed foods, under several different guises, making it difficult to avoid and to determine how much we are consuming. Excess sugar consumption has been associated with [...]
- Foods
Just recently, I’ve been using a wider variety of spices in my cooking, as I am aware many of them have therapeutic value as well as being delicious additions. Each time I incorporate a new ingredient I learn more about it and check out any research. So the spice of [...]
- Foods, Immune System, Inflammation
Have you ever found that there are some nights when sleep doesn’t come easily? Sleep is one of the pillars of good health. Poor sleep is associated with weight gain, poor concentration, increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, type 2 diabetes, depression, impaired immune function and chronic inflammation. Whilst reading [...]
- Foods, Recipe
Wild garlic has been one of my recent discoveries. Now one of my highlights of spring is the appearance of this amazing plant in our local woodland. Not only does it look stunning during its short flowering period, it is also a delicious food and has properties which make it [...]