Healthy Summer Desserts
With a heat wave around the corner we’re sharing our favourite and healthy summer desserts. Who has time or patience for baking or difficult recipes when the beach or air con is calling your name. These healthy summer desserts are simple, quick, nutritious and completely adaptable to your dietary requirements. Frozen Fruit This is probably […]
Control What You Can: Your Health
If we’ve learnt anything from 2016 – it’s expect the unexpected. The last few months have seen some major shifts that will change our world forever. In times of so much change and unrest it can feel incredibly unsettling, we can quickly feel helpless and out of control with our future. With so much uncertainty in the world, anxiety quickly […]
Sleep Part II: Getting a Good Nights Sleep
Last week we explored why sleep is so important and what happens to our bodies when we do sleep. This week it’s all about getting a great nights sleep and practical tips for implementing that. What is good sleep hygiene? We talk a lot about good sleep hygiene and how essential it is to achieving […]
Sleep Part I: What happens when we sleep?
Sleep is without doubt the most important part of the day and yet something many of us don’t give a second thought to. In this two part blog post we explore what happens to you when you sleep, what a good night’s sleep looks like and how you can achieve a great night sleep. What happens when […]
Our Digestive System Telling Us Something
Daily activities that we seldom give thought to actually have the potential to inform us about our health. Certain things about our digestive system give us clues about our own relationship with food and its potential impact on our health. Most people are unaware of the symptoms that they’re having, like they can be having gas, […]
Fermenting Foods – The What and the Why?
Fermenting foods is a tradition that has been used in cultures throughout the world for hundreds and thousands of years. Whether it is sauerkraut, cheese, kimchi or alcohol, fermenting food has been used and adapted over generations. Hundreds of years ago fermented foods would have made up a significant proportion of our diet, however with the introduction of […]
What Causes Emotional Stress?
Emotional stress has many causes including worries about money, work, relationships or traumatic events including care-giving and support. A new source of emotional stress today is technology. Years ago we were told that technology would improve our lives, increase leisure time and make life easier. And this is true to an extent. I can talk […]
The problem with postural stress
“Body stressors, such as sitting too much, not moving enough and poor posture may not be very big on their own,” reveals physiotherapist, Anna-Louise Bouvier, creator of the Happy Body at Work program. “But collectively, it can lead to headaches, neck tension, back aches, fatigue, weight gain, digestive problems and even constipation.” She believes it’s important to recognise the […]
Tips for Mindful Eating
I’m sure you’ve heard of mindfulness, but what about mindful eating? So often today we inhale our food because we’re in a rush, stressed or distracted. Unfortunately with this speed means we often don’t chew our food properly and as a result struggle to get all the wonderful nutrients out of it. When we take […]
What is Stress?
While the term “stress” may be recent, the affect has been with us throughout the history of evolution. The mind/body response to an immediate threat or stress results in a cascade of physiological, biochemical and hormonal events, which prepares us for the danger – turning on our sympathetic nervous system (or our ‘fight or flight’ response). The adrenal […]