What is ‘Mindful Eating’?

I believe that mindful eating is so much more than sitting in a room with your meal without any distractions. It is not simply the avoidance of distraction, but more about being able to totally give yourself to the experience of nourishing yourself both physically and mentally with what you are eating. Physically, before you…

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5 essential foods to help boost your mood

So I have spoken in a previous post about how gut health can affect your mood and I gave you an insight about fermented foods and drinks and how they can increase your ‘good’ gut microbiome. Well in this post today, I wanted to go into some specific foods that have been found to support and…

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Gluten tag!

Good evening friends 🙂 Today I wanted to chat about gluten… something that you have probably heard about but not necessarily know what it is. So basically its a little protein that I previously used to just associate with pasta and bread. Well how wrong could I be! It seems to be in bloomin everything!…

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Talking sh*t! (and gut health)

So not one of those topics that most people are generally willing to talk about…their gut health!  I have recently been doing more research into how your gut microflora (both good and bad bacteria) can effect your mood and I have been pretty shocked about how imbalances within our gut can have a HUGE affect on mental well being!…

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Phytonutrients!

Before starting my masters I hadn’t heard of these ‘phytonutrients’. I didn’t know about their health boosting effects and how eating them then can help to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and ageing… In fact, it seems with vitamins and minerals getting all the good press these plant based warriors are often brushed to…

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