I think this may be the most important part of my website - my blog! Here I can give advice, tips and recipes, plus loads more really useful information on nutrition for you and your young family...
With one in three children in year 6 being overweight or obese, festive times like Halloween and Christmas certainly aren’t going to be any help towards bringing levels of childhood obesity down! Halloween Sweets! Halloween
One of this things I love about my work is speaking to the masses – mainly via the media. There is so much confusion about food and nutrition, and so I like to try and
A few weeks ago I was asked to be part of an expert panel for The Rooted Project, where we discussed some hot nutrition topics in front of 150+ audience members. The hosts had sent
An old myth that people often still refer to is the idea that women need to be eating for two during pregnancy. We now know that during pregnancy a woman’s body becomes much more efficient
Every now and then, when I talk to people about improving their health, I receive comments like ‘I don’t want to just eat salads all day’, and I probably don’t do much to help quash
A few weeks ago a new company – Thriva – got in touch with me to ask if I wanted to trial out and feedback to them on their new products. As a Nutritionist and
The Sugar Reduction Summit is taking place once again this year on Thursday 22nd September at The Royal Society in London. This year the event is titled: The Sugar Reduction Summit; Industry, Regulation and Public
Guest post by Paul Fairbairn, BSc (hons) in Sport and Exercise Science & Nutrition MSc student – The truth about our food…
Confusing nutrition messages are not new. Everyday we seem to read contradictory information in the press about the ‘super’ powers of certain foods, weight loss ‘magic’ products or supplements and about foods that will or
The Nutrition News this week is dedicated to news around the Childhood Obesity Plan which was published by the Government on Thursday morning. There was a lot of hype and media interest around this so
On 23rd June 2016 I was asked to speak to a room full of Health Visitors about maternal, infant and child nutrition and child obesity. This was for the Journal of Health Visiting and I
I do love a pesto pasta dish! However, shop-bought pesto CAN be fairly expensive and, in my experience, it’s really hard to get a decent pesto sauce that tastes really good. That’s one of the
Beating Bowel Cancer is a charity involved in….trying to beat bowel cancer. They have recently started a ‘veg pledge’ Beating Bowel Cancer Campaign where they are getting people to have a go at giving up
Top Tips for Healthy Toddlers Workshop in Clapham, London 31/08/2016
Big news this week for the Nutrition world! The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) released new vitamin D recommendations in their long awaited Vitamin D Report! Importantly the report doesn’t set the guidelines, it