Alternative breakfasts

Typical Western breakfasts of refined cereals or white toast with jam or marmalade holds are high in wheat and with little nutritional value and unbalances blood sugar making us tired and moody with sweet cravings by mid morning.  These alternative breakfasts are...

Cravings and blood sugar

Resisting sugary high carbohydrate foods demands willpower. Often my clients will say they have no willpower, and whilst some people don’t exercise a level of control, some people are fighting against biological needs and psychological thoughts that make it really...

Super Salad

  Baby raw asparagus Baby raw courgette Rocket Grated red cabbage Cooked and cooled green soya beans Cherry tomatoes,  Avocado Pine nuts or toasted walnuts Feta (optional) Combine all ingredients and serve with tahini dressing:  –   2 spoons tahini, 2...

Want to lose weight – don’t go on a ‘diet’

On Channel 4’s Dispatches programme ‘Weight Watchers, How They Make Their Millions’ in January of this year, presenter Jane Moore raised questions about the diet company, worth £5 billion, how weight loss goes hand in hand with the marketing of their...

The Fasting Diet – what is it?

    The 5:2 diet: what is it and how does it work?   • With the 5:2 diet, you can eat whatever you like five days a week — so-called feeding days. On the two “fasting days” you eat 500 calories if you are a woman, or 600 calories if you are a man.  • It...

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