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- Category: Blog
- ODE TO THE ARTICHOKE - a poem by Pablo Neruda
The artichoke With a tender heart Dressed up like a warrior, Standing at attention, it built A small helmet Under its scales It remained Unshakeable, By…
- There are none so blind as the double blind ! (2)
I absolutely loved this article in CAM magazine on “blinkered” scientists and was laughing out loud as I read it. It was written by my good friend and…
- Which's Brew? (12)
Which? magazine has just published a headline scoop “Are Nutritional Therapists Gambling With Your Health?”. Martina examines the science behind the claims.
- ODE TO THE ARTICHOKE - a poem by Pablo Neruda
- Category: Published Articles
- A Criminal Diet?
Diet, Crime and Antisocial Behaviour Western countries are seeing a consistent increase in violent crime and best efforts by police, zero tolerance campaigns…
- Acne in Adults
Secrets of beautiful skin Between the passing agony of teenage spots and the inevitability of wrinkles, there is a stage when one hopes to become the proud…
- ADHD and Nutrition
They are what they eat Do you have a ‘hyperactive’ child? It’s always the argumentative one with the temper tantrums. The faddy eater who doesn’t seem…
- Alzheimer's Disease
Most people expect to suffer a degree of decline as they age. Noel Coward said that it’s ” foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of…
- Amaranth - The Golden Grain
When the Spanish conquered the Aztec and Inca civilisations for gold in the 1500’s, they also destroyed the natives’ primary source of nutrition. Amaranth…
- Are You Compliant?
My computer may well be year 2000 compliant, but my body most certainly ain’t! After the festivities, I bravely decided to assess the damage done in front…
- Are You Deficient In Magnesium?
In 1618, a farmer on Epsom Common noticed that his cows refused to drink from a certain well ... even when the weather was hot and dry. The water had a…
- Beat Depression with Nutrition
Life has its ups and downs. Whether it’s raining cats and dogs, exams are looming, your partner has done a runner or some grander calamity occurs, a…
- Calcium intake for healthy bones
Clients often ask whether their intake of calcium is adequate. Their concern is justified since calcium losses are associated with osteoporosis in 1 in 3…
- Chocolate - Addicted to the love of it?
As a nutritionist, I am expected to radiate with health, energy and vitality – I wish …. All I can say is that, like most people, I try the best I can…
- Chocolate - Sugar Replacement Therapy?
Let me tell you, the quickest route to a girl’s heart is through her stomach! Forget looks, fame and fortune, a man has to be able to cook. Or willing to…
- Chocolate Addiction - 12 Steps to Beat It! (1)
Now is the ideal time to get a grip. Come Easter we are bombarded with the unique orosensory properties of a biologically active substance capable of completely…
- Chocolate, you are simply divine
If God had wanted women to be perfect, he wouldn’t have invented chocolate. Creating a food as sumptuously soothing, as voluptuously velvety as chocolate…
- Diet and Depression Conference Report
Martina Watts, who both organised and spoke at this conference in December, reports: Last year, the food campaigner Sustain and the Mental Health Foundation…
- Dietary Supplements
Why take supplements? I am often asked whether it is necessary to take vitamin and mineral supplements and why we can’t get all we need from a healthy diet.…
- Elderberries To Beat The 'Flu
Flu bugs always find us ... ... no matter how far they have to travel. Notorious ones tend to originate from somewhere exotic like Beijing. Yet, for all we…
- Fancy Some Sauerkraut? (1)
Growing awareness that good nutrition is the basis for good health is creating a market for simple, traditional foods that haven’t been factory processed…
- Fat around the middle
Research from the Department of Health shows that people in the UK now have fatter stomachs than ever before. Since 1951, women’s waists have increased by 6…
- Fish Oil Controversy
Is Something Fishy Going On? If you find yourself thoroughly confused about the recent fishoil controversy, you are not alone. One minute we are told to eat…
- Fluoride - too poisonous to dump, yet healthy to drink ?
There's Something in the Water ... Toxic industrial waste is not easy to get rid of these days as disposal costs can run into billions. Some polluting…
- Food and Mental Health
A recipe for madness? The standard advice to “just eat a healthy balanced diet” is at least half a century out of date. What exactly is it that we are…
- Food Intolerance And Allergies
Allergies in the UK have reached epidemic proportions ...according to the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Committee’s report on the subject. The…
- Gut And Psychology Syndrome
I know little about art, but Edvard Munch’s stolen painting “The Scream” has captured my imagination. We see a figure holding his head, with eyes…
- Hair Loss
It is normal to shed between 50 and 100 hairs each day. Excessive hair loss may be triggered by a variety of factors such as drugs, disease, deficiencies,…
- Healthy Eating For Kids
Healthy eating and healthy lifestyle for children Parents are all too aware how important it is to establish good eating habits in their children, but can…
- Healthy Eating For Kids
Healthy eating and healthy lifestyle for children Parents are all too aware how important it is to establish good eating habits in their children, but can…
- Iron in the Soul
Popeye, the popular cartoon character, got it all wrong. He ate mounds of spinach, thinking it contained plenty of iron to make him strong. But it turns out…
- McDonalds Incognito
It isn’t often I venture into McDonald’s – But I do occasionally give in to the kids’ pressure and bow to the inevitable. No self-respecting nutritioni…
- Memory like an elephant
A distant cousin of mine called Manori works at an elephant conservation park on the beautiful island of Sri Lanka. Elephants are long-lived, highly social…
- Mercury, the menace in your mouth
Why was the Mad Hatter in “Alice in Wonderland” mad? Probably a victim of mercury poisoning because felt hatters used mercury to polish their top hats. You…
- More About Nutritional Therapy
What exactly is Nutritional Therapy? I am often asked what a nutritional therapist actually does. Most of us would agree that nutrition is the foundation for…
- Mountain Salt
'Too much salt is bad for us ...' So says the Department of Health, and leads to fluid retention, high blood pressure and heart disease. They refer, of…
- Nature's Painkillers
We use pain-killers for the relief of headaches, flu and minor ailments, but if we take them continuously for chronic conditions, they carry considerable…
- Our Daily Bread
Bread - is it making us ill? Our eating habits have always been inextricably linked to the state of our health. Take bread, which used to be regarded as the…
- Plenty More Fish In The Sea?
The Food Standards Agency recommends that everyone should be eating two servings of fish per week... One portion should be oily, such as fresh tuna, salmon,…
- PMS - Premenstrual Syndrome and Nutrition
What can men do about PMS? “Frailty, thy name is woman!” said Shakespeare but I’m sure he had no idea what it is like to suffer from Premenstrual…
- Pre-Conceptual Care
Healthy Babies with Foresight! What better way to start off the new millennium than writing about new life? In particular healthy new life. Increasingly,…
- Quinoa - A 'New' Food For the Future
It is about time I give my favourite food a plug as clients often ask for an alternative to gluten-containing grains. Wheat, oats, rye and barley are the…
- Raw Food Chocolate
Surely, there is only one superfood of choice for St Valentine’s Day? It’s gluten free, dairy free, low GI and contains some serious feelgood factors -…
- Selenium - The Facts
Selenium is one of those substances we need only little of, but without any at all, we die. Our bodies don’t produce it – we have to eat it – but…
- The Cocoa Plant
I have finally found the man of my dreams and the fact that he owns a chocolate factory has everything to do with it. Chocolate factories, unlike cocoa…
- The highs and lows of selenium
I blame Marco Polo for importing fireworks from the Far East. The Chinese invented fireworks by filling bamboo shoots with gunpowder and exploding them in…
- The Insulin Factor
Fat phobia rules the land. “My rule is to abstain from any hint of dietary fat and to exercise until I drip or drop,” a client told me proudly during…
- The Journey through the Gut
Have you ever given a thought to what happens to your food once you’ve eaten it? Before food can be absorbed into the blood, it must be changed into…
- The Machine Stops?
E M Forster’s “The Machine Stops” was published for the first time in 1909. It is a short satire about a monstrous system where the mental and…
- The Perfect Sweetness
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down... But does the sugar we eat actually contribute to our requirement of medication? The sugar industry would…
- Think Zinc
Take a moment to look at your fingernails. Are they brittle, do they peel easily? Are they so thin you are inclined to bite them? Perhaps they grow very…
- Waiter, there’s a free radical in my soup!
Whilst many people have been contemplating their navels on the beach, I have spent most of this summer indoors, hunched over my computer. I have also been…
- We Can't Live Without Vitamin C
Vitamins were only discovered a century ago, ...which is surprising since we can’t live without them. Our bodies need vitamins for all bodily functions,…
- A Criminal Diet?
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