Alternative & Complementary Healthcare
This week: how's it for you? Thyroid autoimmunity, corn/gluten rage and my daily menu. Enjoy x Hello - No 15 Newsletter already - is it working for you? Thanks for all your lovely comments, emails and support on here and Facebook last week after my third (!) foot injury! It’s healing well. I’m trying to …
Happy 2024 everyone! Hope you had a restful festive break and are now raring to with all the opportunities a new year brings. What do you plan to do professionally this year with your clinic work - do tell, maybe you'll inspire someone else?! Dr Crista was talking about the importance of killing mould in …
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I hope you are enjoying this new year series of posts. Catch up here if you need to. Number 3... Drop the latte Having got coffee back for well over a year now, I've been drinking too much of it in excitement! I can't do instant (TGF contaminated, often) or ready-ground coffee (mouldy, high histamine?), …
I hope you enjoyed my first change this year. If you missed it, you can catch up here. Here's number 2... Eat at the table Since I met P, I have eaten pretty much every meal on a tray in front of the telly. We enjoy it, frankly, and it was out of necessity when …
Happy 2024 everyone! Hope you had a fab festive break and are raring to go with another new year. I luurve new year, as many of you know. Such a great opportunity for rethinks and new starts. A whole new blank 365 days to create upon; I get so excited. So, whatever you need to …
Air fryers are all the rage, aren’t they, not least because they save us the cost of putting the big oven on for smaller meals? They can also cook much faster (partly because they are smaller and take less time to warm up) and we tend to use less fat to cook with. Some of …
Ok, full disclosure: artificial sweeteners is number 57 pet hate, ie. I have a lot of pet hates! Seriously, though, I am constantly asking people to eat 'real' sweetness rather than chemical sweetness because I have always thought it is not helping to regulate blood sugar, or lower the sweet cravings via a change of …
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I've been beavering away the last few days and have created some more 7 day meal plans for you. These are designed to give you a simple meal plan to follow and I've included all the recipes, a shopping list, a meal planner for your fridge and plenty of tips and ideas. The software is …
I was pondering this today. Not that I was hungry or anything! My snack repertoire has, thankfully, expanded quite a lot recently due to getting a load of foods back at last, hoorah! So, mine is currently a slice of my almond flour and flaxseed bread with nut butter and a pure jam (currently St …
I know sometimes finding quick, satisfying and healthy grain and dairy free - truly gluten free - snacks is not easy - especially when you've got the munchies and could eat your own earwax! To help, I have compiled 21 simple recipes to inspire you. Each has only a few ingredients, there's no cooking involved …
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