Nutrition

Is Your Current Lifestyle Making You Ill?

Are your daily lifestyle choices setting you up for illness in later life, or even worse are they impacting your life right now? Take our quiz today and find out! 15 Questions, 70 points, what's your health score?

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Effects of Elderberry during Flu Season

Effects of Elderberry during Flu Season

When I was growing up, I have memories of my father feverishly picking elderberries and then making them into jellies and wine. I had no idea about the effects of elderberry during flu season and how they help keep you healthy. Our back yard was filled with elderberry bushes and they ...
The Many Benefits of Flaxseed

The Many Benefits of Flaxseed

When Michaela was first diagnosed with an egg allergy, I searched for egg substitutions. Flaxseed was one of many that I discovered along my research and found there are many benefits of Flaxseed. Egg allergies present an additional challenge in baking. There are several ‘recipes’ available but the ...
A Good Low Gi Diet Plan

A Good Low Gi Diet Plan

So, you’ve tried every diet known to man, you’ve had some success losing weight but watched yourself put it all back on again. You feel overweight, unfit, unattractive and frankly despondent. You are not alone. Over a third of the UK population is on a diet at any one time. Why? ...
Starting Your Morning Right

Starting Your Morning Right

How do you normally feel when you wake up in the morning? Do you find it especially hard to get up when you need to?  Do you wake feeling lethargic and groggy, wishing you could just go back to sleep? When you actually crawl out of bed, do you get out ...
Quick, flexible breakfast options to grab at home

Quick, flexible breakfast options to grab at home

By following a healthy lifestyle eating plan you are able to eat a wide variety of healthy foods that will make you feel great and maintain your energy levels throughout the day. Healthy eating requires you to consume small frequent meals throughout the day, instead of the traditional three meal routine. This ...
Yours Kids need to be living a Healthy Lifestyle

Yours Kids need to be living a Healthy Lifestyle

Helping kid’s lead healthy lifestyles is a vitally important step towards a lifetime of good health. I have recently been working with two young teenage boys in my role as a personal trainer and fitness instructor. Both were extremely inactive, struggling with both physical and mental problems caused by weight issues. Studies ...
Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Simple Nutrition Rules for You

Despite the proliferation of materials and education about losing weight, people are getting fatter than ever. How you look, and how you feel is very much down to what you eat. Lack of muscle mass, high body fat, lack of energy, bad skin, digestive problems, sleep problems, mood swings… All of these ...
Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle – Don’t Let Excuses Hold You Back

You are responsible for your position in life at this moment. It is your responsibility to create the person you want to be and the life that you want to live. Do you want to carry on as you are? Do you want to change so you can create the life ...
Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Lead a Healthy Lifestyle if you want to Feel Better and Live Longer

Think of lifestyle change as an evolving process, not as something with which you can start then stop when your targets are achieved. It’s easy to get caught up in the idea that you can achieve a certain number on a scale or a certain body size and that will be ...