Iron rich foods for your little one
Iron is a key nutrient for your babies growth and development. Priya, dietitian gives you top tips on how to include more iron rich foods into your little ones diet.
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Sugar, Satisfaction and Fullness
Sometimes eating sweeter foods satisfies that taste craving but doesn’t keep you full up and leaves you wanting more. Think about eating chocolate chip cookies compared to a slice of toast with peanut butter. Take a read about how to eat sweet foods in a balanced way.
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Cosy Comfort Meals
Often when we think about comfort food it can be in a negative light, those foods that are high in fat and calories that make us feel good but should we be eating them to help our mood and sense of wellbeing? Whilst we don’t want to become dependant on food as our only way
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What are your food rules?
Huge thanks to Shannon Western for her help with this post. Food rules keep us stuck trying to change our body, or put judgements onto other people’s food choices. They are diet culture’s best friend- a really important step in stopping dieting and wishing to change your body is rejecting food rules. Here is a
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Aubergine and Sweet Potato Coconut Curry
Oh my days. I think I may be getting my curry groove back. Being half Sri-Lankan this type of food is just genetically in me, it makes my soul happy. However life with small children has meant I haven’t cooked many spicey dishes for a while. I’m slowly aiming to get them all onto spicer
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Food, control and Covid.
Lockdown life has had a huge impact on us in so many ways. One thing that I am seeing in my clinical work is the impact on mental health and on eating. I’m sharing this to show that you are NOT ALONE. So many people are struggling and need extra compassion, a listening ear and
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Breaking free from food rules.
Food rules can keep us stuck in diets, so one big step is working out how to overcome these mindsets. Many thanks to Shannon Western for her help with this post. How do you describe food? Our attitude to food is really important and can determine if our relationship with food is healthy or not.
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How to read a food label
Food labels can be confusing to interpret but it is key to know what you are eating and to compare products. Here is a very information post that will help you understand all you need to know about a food label. Written by Naomi Leppitt, Community Dietitian. A food label should be able to tell
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Are Eggs Safe?
Eggs have always been quite a controversial topic in the nutrition world. I appeared on BBC One’s Food Truth or Scare recently to bust this myth. You can catch the full episode on BBC Iplayer, Series 5, Episode 2. I’d make an egg pun about it being egg-cellent but that would just be awful! Eggs
Nutrition for post viral fatigue.
For some people who have had Covid-19 there seems to be a very long recovery time and a post-viral fatigue that comes with it. I cannot imagine what that is like to go through, after being unwell to them be left struggling still weeks and months later. Having worked as part of the Chronic Fatigue
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