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What are Bach Flowers?
What are Bach Flowers? Bach Flowers are a set of 38 flower essences, developed in the early 1900’s by an English physician, Dr Edward Bach. The most well-known of the Bach Flowers is a combination of 5 remedies, called Rescue Remedy- Cherry Plum / Clematis / Impatiens...
What is Fibre and Where is it in Food?
What is Fibre and Where is it in Food? As dietary fibre is relatively indigestible and keeps our digestive system healthy. There are 2 sorts of fibre – Soluble and Insoluble. Soluble fibre which soaks up water like a sponge and helps to bulk out our stool (poo)...
Should I Go Gluten Free?
Should I Go Gluten Free? A gluten-free diet is not recommended for everyone. There are even some concerns about the nutritional value of gluten free food. Recent studies have found that the nutritional composition of processed gluten–free food items may include high...
Curbing Cravings
Why Do We Eat When We’re NOT Hungry? We certainly eat when we are happy and it can bring great joy! But we often eat when we are stressed, mad, tired, sad or bored. Our bodies perceive these emotions as chronic stress, and our brains release the hormone cortisol,...
What is Fasting?
What is Fasting? Fasting was made popular with the BBC documentary in 2012 on the 5:2 diet. There are a few different approaches to fasting. The 5:2 diet proposes 5 days of ‘normal’ eating followed by 2 days of ‘fasting’ with an intake of only 500kcal for women and...
Menopausal Weight Gain or Meno Belly Fat
Why Do I Gain Weight in Menopause? We may sometimes forget that oestrogens play many important roles in our bodies other than the significant role it plays in reproduction. We also have oestrogen receptors in a variety of nonreproductive tissues too. Most notably we...