I’ve made a few changes to my diet recently for a number of reasons. For a while I felt like I lost my passion for nutrition and the science around it all mainly due to studying it in a time pressured, competitive and stressful environment. When I stepped away from all that stress to doContinue reading “Changes I’ve made to my diet recently and why”
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Evidence Based Ways To Increase Your Iron Levels Through Diet
Iron is one of those nutrients that we often hear spoken about in terms of deficiency, especially among young women. This is because women of child-bearing age menstruate every month meaning they lose a lot of blood, which is where iron is found and needed. According to Bord Bia, it is estimated that a massiveContinue reading “Evidence Based Ways To Increase Your Iron Levels Through Diet”
Why Most Influencers Shouldn’t Give Out Nutrition Advice and How To Find Reliable Sources of Information
Rant About Health Influencers When it comes to nutrition on social media, I think oftentimes there’s a large emphasis on macronutrients and in what your ratio of the macronutrients should be but micronutrients are often ignored, despite their incredible importance in maintaining good health. I’ve seen sooooo many people on Instagram offering meal plans andContinue reading “Why Most Influencers Shouldn’t Give Out Nutrition Advice and How To Find Reliable Sources of Information”
Dispute Your Irrational Beliefs Around Food!
Lately I’ve been reading up on Albert Ellis’s work as a psychotherapist and applying some of his therapeutic techniques to my own life and it got me thinking that many of his teachings can be applied to our relationship around food. For background, Albert Ellis was one of the most influential psychologists of the 20thContinue reading “Dispute Your Irrational Beliefs Around Food!”
Is Sorbet a Healthy Alternative to Ice Cream?
Social media loves to push the idea of “healthy desserts” or desserts that are actually good for you because they contain less calories or you swap sugar for agave or sweetener or you add a heaped spoon of protein powder in place of some of the flour. My question is why can’t a dessert justContinue reading “Is Sorbet a Healthy Alternative to Ice Cream?”
Powerful Plants: How Consuming a Wide Variety of Plant Foods Can Benefit Your Gut Health
Gut health research has come a long way in recent years and has become a popular topic of conversation in the medical community, the health industry and social media. This is because it has been shown time and time again that our microbiome, or the bacteria that grow in our gut, are linked in aContinue reading “Powerful Plants: How Consuming a Wide Variety of Plant Foods Can Benefit Your Gut Health”
We Need To Stop Demonising Milk (At least from a nutritional perspective)
I grew up on a dairy farm so when I see people bad mouthing milk I take it personally. Not really, I just think some of the arguments against dairy make no sense from a nutritional perspective and I want to talk about it. There is a lot of chatter these days about the adverseContinue reading “We Need To Stop Demonising Milk (At least from a nutritional perspective)”
How Mindfulness and Acceptance May Help Improve Our Relationship with Food
In my previous post I discussed some reasons why we may experience a poor relationship with food and diet and how our society and its views on the ideal body can really affect how we relate to food. In this post I’m going to discuss a therapeutic technique that is widely used to improve mood,Continue reading “How Mindfulness and Acceptance May Help Improve Our Relationship with Food”
Why Your Relationship With Food May Be Suffering
Food and diet is an area of great distress for many people, mainly due to the fact that people equate controlling our intake of food with controlling how we can make our bodies look. As humans, we have a desire to consistently improve ourselves, which is typically an amazing and very useful ability as thisContinue reading “Why Your Relationship With Food May Be Suffering”
Healthy Eating At A Most Basic Level
I want to start this post by saying my diet is most certainly not peak health and wellness. I have a mad love for pizza and a good white wine and stealing the biscuits and chocolates from the hotel I work at. But that being said, if we want to eat slightly healthier and startContinue reading “Healthy Eating At A Most Basic Level”
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