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Nutrition and Long Covid: The Benefits of Reducing Sugar

Nutrition and Long Covid: The Benefits of Reducing Sugar

Nutritional therapist Caroline Hind reveals the benefits of reducing sugar consumption when recovering from Covid-19  If ever there is a time to make the leap into reducing sugary foods, recovering from Covid and ongoing post-viral symptoms is the time to do it. Be kind to yourself and try to drop only one sugary food at a time, but make sure to stock up on nutritious whole foods to keep you satisfied and well-nourished. Reasons to Drop Sugar from your Diet…

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HRT and Natural Alternatives During Menopause

HRT and Natural Alternatives During Menopause

Nutritional therapist Melanie Dixon reveals some natural alternatives to support the menopause Many women in the UK take HRT (hormone replacement therapy) to help alleviate menopause symptoms such as hot flushes, low mood, anxiety and insomnia. Let’s take a look at what happens during the transition through menopause, how HRT functions in the body and natural ways to help manage symptoms. What is menopause and how does it affect the body? Menopause is the term used for when a woman’s…

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Christine’s Avocado and Chocolate Protein Truffles

Christine’s Avocado and Chocolate Protein Truffles

BRAIN BOOSTING FOODS Want to give your brain a boost? Try these delicious recipes from Nutritionist and Author of the Brain Boost Diet, Christine Bailey. Christine’s avocado and chocolate protein truffles With just a handful of ingredients, these chocolate truffles are low in sugar and a great source of monounsaturated fats. The addition of chocolate protein powder gives these little bites a fabulous protein boost too. Perfect as a pick me up treat, especially after a workout. Makes around 20…

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Green Matcha Latte

Green Matcha Latte

BRAIN BOOSTING FOODS Want to give your brain a boost? Try these delicious recipes from Nutritionist and Author of the Brain Boost Diet, Christine Bailey. Green matcha latte Rich coconut milk and matcha powder create a delicious dairy-free matcha tea latte. If you have a milk frother or steamer, use them to create a lovely light, yet creamy, drink. Serves 1 Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 2 minutes Ingredients: 240ml/9fl oz/1 cup almond milk or coconut milk ½ tsp…

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Nutrition and cognition

Nutrition and cognition

While our brain health inevitably will decline as we get older, there is much you can do to maintain your cognitive function with healthy nutrition and lifestyle. We ask a lot of our brains on a day-to-day basis and without properly nourishing them, it stands to reason our cognitive function could fall below par. And there are so many ways that we can nourish this organ, from the fuel that we put into it in terms of food, the supplements…

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Asian Coconut Broth with Dumplings

Asian Coconut Broth with Dumplings

BRAIN BOOSTING FOODS Want to give your brain a boost? Try these delicious recipes from Nutritionist and Author of the Brain Boost Diet, Christine Bailey. Asian coconut broth with dumplings A light healing broth making use of homemade stock and coconut milk. The dumplings can be made with white fish as well as prawns and provides an easy to way to increase your fish intake. Serves 2 Ingredients: 1 x 400g can full fat coconut milk 100ml homemade chicken stock…

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The summer glow

The summer glow

True Health brings you a guide to the best in summer beauty to keep your skin glowing and nourished during the warner months. While winter is a time our skin soaks up ricer, more deeply nourishing creams and serums to soothe drier skin, the summer sees our routine change to lighter products that cater to the warmer weather. But what should that routine look like and why is it important that you switch it up and change your products? Summer…

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This Month’s Top Picks

This Month’s Top Picks

Advertisement   BrainpowerTM Good Health Naturally’s Brainpower™ is a potent combination of liposomal curcumin with resveratrol, both widely recognised for their powerful brain health benefits. The ‘liposome’ technology uses phosphatidylcholine to deliver the ingredients to the head and brain within minutes and includes a high concentration of curcumin 200mg and resveratrol 75mg in each serving (6ml). With its powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, this unique combination is highly recommended to naturally support your brain health, including memory, cognition and mood….

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The Anti-inflammatory Approach to Long Covid

The Anti-inflammatory Approach to Long Covid

If you’re suffering from the lasting effects of Covid-19, an anti-inflammatory diet may be able to help, suggests nutritional therapist Caroline Hind The lingering after-effects of a Covid infection have come to be called ‘long Covid’ or ‘long-haul Covid’ and are estimated to affect around one in three people who have contracted the SARS-Cov-2 virus. Long Covid symptoms can include fatigue, low mood, anxiety, joint and muscle aches, disturbed sleep, nerve pain and brain fog. As with other post-viral illness,…

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Spring into Mental Wellness

Spring into Mental Wellness

The last two years have taken their toll on our mental health and wellbeing. Now as restrictions end and the spring months are upon us, it’s time to give our mental wellness a lift to keep anxiety at bay and our energy levels high. Lorraine Perretta and Olga Preston, registered nutritional therapy practitioners at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition’s Brain Bio Centre, give their expert advice on how to support mental wellbeing through diet and lifestyle. Brain Boosters 1. Colour…

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