The 5 golden traps of Twixtmas …and how to avoid them.

The 5 golden traps of Twixtmas …and how to avoid them.

  Here, my lovely friends, are the 5 golden traps of xmas and how to avoid them. Weighing yourself.  Not something I’m an advocate of generally and certainly not as a gauge of fat-loss or gain.  Picture this: As is perfectly normal over the festive period, you’ve...
Delicious Loaded Vegetable Soup

Delicious Loaded Vegetable Soup

Serves 2 Calories per portion: 280cals Protein per portion: 20g Recipe from John Gregory-Smith @johngs 2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for serving 350g leeks, washed and trimmed and cut into 1inch pieces 250g broccoli florets 200g spinach 300ml vegetable stock 130g fat...
The basics for efficient hormones

The basics for efficient hormones

There are certain misleading connotations to the word hormone.  Us menopausal gals tend to collectively tar them all with the same negative brush but we cannot function as humans without them.  They are our chemical messengers, travelling from the brain through the...
DEEEELICIOUS BAKED OATS

DEEEELICIOUS BAKED OATS

    There are loads of recipes for baked oats on Instagram (been salivating over all of them) and I wanted to share one. Makes 4 large portions so double up if you want more. This recipe and photo are by @dieticianrose (do give her a follow, loads of great...

SLIM DOESN’T ALWAYS EQUAL HEALTHY

    Sitting on the bus the other day I overhead a conversation between two women. They were discussing a female friend of theirs who had died suddenly from a heart attack.  “Such a shock!”, one of them declared. “How could that happen, she was always so...

Tips on lowering cholesterol

  Cholesterol is a fatty substance (known as a lipid) and helps make hormones, cell membranes and vitamin D. It’s absolutely vital.  Cholesterol is made in the liver and carried in the blood stream in the form of lipoproteins.  There are a) low-density...

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