Monthly Archives: March 2016

Toilet Training for Adults….

March 30, 2016  |   | Books, Bowel Movement, Gut related

In her recent best seller, Gut (see earlier blogs), Giulia Enders describes how the modern western toilet has given us diverticulitis and haemorrhoids…… She doesn’t exactly put it like that but she provides us with the statistical research to back her claim that populations that still squat “to do their thing” have fewer occurrences of…

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The Sugar Tax….a small step on a difficult road

March 27, 2016  |   | Avoiding sugar, Good Sugars, Legislation Changes, Sugar, Sugar Tax, Sugary foods

There is understandable controversy about the new Sugar Tax, in the UK, but can we at least agree that it helps in the various efforts, to build awareness of the magnitude of the problem facing us, as regards hidden sugar in foods? Working with this subject, I am regularly presented with new foods that pretend…

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To Caf or De-caf? Is that the question?

March 10, 2016  |   | 4 Comments  | Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Enhancing Sports Performance

Is Caffeine good or bad for us? This question keeps coming back to me, and especially recently, after I was challenged at my last BUPA check to see if I could give it up….and did. It makes me that little bit more difficult when meeting friends ‘for a coffee’, but does it make me any…

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Going Nuts!

March 7, 2016  |   | Avoiding sugar, Brain Health, Coconut Oil, Filling healthy foods, Good Fats, Highly Nutritious, Nuts, Quick & Simple, Recipe, Seeds

Nut cereal as a substitute for a grain cereal, is a most satisfying and easy breakfast and, with all those healthy fats, it keeps you full for ages. Take a hand full of each of your favourite raw and unsalted nuts. Blitz them to a crunchy mix together with a dessertspoon or more of crushed…

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Show compassion for us Sugar Addicts!

March 3, 2016  |   | 6 Comments  | Avoiding sugar, Food Nutrition and Advice, Sugar, Sugary foods, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized

This is NO JOKE. The war on sugar is going on all around us – and I am one of the warriors. But in all this effort to build awareness of hidden sugars in most processed foods and the threat of getting fat, destroying brain function and a whole host of serious long term debilitating…

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