Tag: food
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The Body Signs Series #4 – Brittle Nails
Do you often find your nails weak, thin, easy to break off or peel? Do they have ridges or lines? All of these could be signs of the following nutrient needs…
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Rise & Shine Green Smoothie
We all know the importance of a healthy breakfasts, but what if you’re not an “egg & veggie” type of a breakfast person. What if you’re not a breakfast person at all? Enter the breakfast smoothie!
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The Body Signs Series #3 – Dry Skin
Dry skin. Seems like a common problem which we often try to solve with lotions and potions… but sometimes hydrating your skin is not enough. For healthy, glowing skin you also need sufficient amounts of these nutrients…
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The Body Signs Series – #1 Cracked Tongue
So let’s start with the tongue. It is often one of the first areas of the body to show signs of nutrient deficiencies.
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Calorie Counting – Is It Really That Important?
The short answer would be ‘it depends’. If you have had even the tiniest of experiences in weight loss or ‘toning’ your body (i.e. building muscle) you would have been told to stick to your daily calorie target. You would also have been told about the concept of ‘calories in’ vs. ‘calories out’. In order…
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What is Functional Nutrition and Why Should You Care?
Nutrition – the word itself conjures images of strict diets and weight scales, doesn’t it? And yet nutrition is about a lot more than just that. Over the years nutrition has started taking a more prominent spot in the worlds of health and medicine. Not just in the treatment of digestive diseases, but for a wide…
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Is Your Food Making You Depressed?
No, I don’t mean that “boring, bland, diet food” (although healthy food is not boring, but more on that later). What I’m talking about is your standard food intake. You know, the “wholegrain” sandwich and pasta, the takeaway pizza, the “healthy” rice bowl or potato mash – those kind of things. How can they make…
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Why Sticking to a Diet is Hard These Days
First of all, I hate the word diet. It is terribly close to the word “die” and exudes connotations of great struggle and suffering. Oh, and I love food. The poor word has been so badly abused by the media and health & food industry that it has now become our second nature to associate…
English Speaking Nutritionist in Florence, Italy 