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Easy ways to keep yourself healthy this Winter

Thumbnail image for Easy ways to keep yourself healthy this Winter December 9, 2010

Everybody has their own way of keeping themselves healthy over the Winter.  I thought Eva (one of our lovely ex-battery ladies) had frostbite when we came back from our trip to see her looking like this. But no, those little white tubes around the top of her head are actually new feathers forming, prompted by [...]

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Mind apples and movement: simple tips to pamper your mind

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Is your mental health something you take for granted or something you work actively at maintaining?  We’re used to looking after our bodies, exercising regularly and feeding them nutritious food, but how often do we do something to look after our minds?  Cancer and heart disease may feel like very real threats (which they are) [...]

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Handpicked Links April 2010

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Green Kitchen Stories is a new to me blog with delicious, vegetarian recipes made by David and Luise in Stockholm. My favourites so far include this No-rice risotto with chard and Goats cheese and thyme dip. High in the top 10 questions I get asked in clinic is “Is it really important to eat breakfast [...]

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Is osteoporosis on your radar?

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1 in 2 is the number of women over the age of 50 who will break a bone because of poor bone health. i.e if you’re a woman and you are reading this, there’s a 50% of chance of this happening to you.  The figures for men aren’t much different at one in five. I [...]

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A very realistic plan to lose a pound (or how to banish your Christmas ‘food baby’ in 5 steps)

January 13, 2010

There’s a school of thought in nutrition that say’s that it’s christmas that’s ruining our waistlines.  Most of don’t gain nearly as much as we think we have over the festive season (on average about a pound) but the problem is that most of us don’t lose that pound in the early months of the [...]

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Handpicked Links December 2009

November 22, 2009

Vegetarian Health – going vegetarian is undergoing an understandable resurgence in popularity at the moment with people ditching meat for environmental, health and animal welfare reasons. The NHS Vegetarian Health site has a good series of articles to get you started. Keep healthy this Winter with this guide to fighting colds and flu through diet. [...]

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