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Food Addiction Workshop in The Lake District
If you are struggling with yo-yo dieting, have big difficulties controlling your cravings, or find it hard to not over-eat certain foods – please join us at the beautiful Brathay Hall in Ambleside, in the Lake District, for an intensive weekend of learning about food addiction, sharing experiences and getting support from Dr Jen Unwin…
Read MoreIs Food Addiction your Fork in the Road?
My lovely colleague and friend, Dr Jen Unwin, recently published a very personal and insightful story of her own journey to recognising and dealing with her food addiction in Fork in the Road. It is an easy read with valuable comments and experience from some of the worlds experts in the area of food addiction,…
Read MoreSugar – The Gateway to Addiction!
I googled the words ‘Food Addiction’ today and got 174,000,000 hits. ‘Sugar Addiction’ gives 65,100,000 results. These two little video clips help us to appreciate why there is a growing demand for help with these challenges, despite the fact that neither of them are formally recognised yet as a disease. Eric Clapton reminds us how…
Read MoreArticle 1 of 6: The Basics of Nutrition…..
…… for Sports and Exercise and remaining healthy. The volume of information about nutrition and healthy eating is totally overwhelming and worse, often conflicting. Basically we can Google ourselves to whatever information we would like, and a positive or negative take on any subject we choose, depending on the words we use in our search…
Read More“Absolutely NO role of sugar in a balanced diet.”
This recent interview, on Australian TV, with British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra, is worth a watch, if you are still in doubt about whether you should be eating fat free or fat reduced foods rather than focusing on cutting out refined carbohydrates or sugars. 11 minutes of your busy day, well spent. Take a look…
Read MoreShow compassion for us Sugar Addicts!
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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