Back To School – Part 1 – Children’s Nutrition

With your children rested and rejuvenated from the summer holidays and poised and ready to return to school in September, now is the perfect time to make changes to their diet to improve their health and academic performance alike.

Now is the perfect time to make the changes to your children's diet to [...]

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Healthy skin spotlight – Our top 5 supplements for skin health

This blog post looks at some of the key nutritional supplements for supporting and maintaining healthy skin.  Follow our top five tips and your skin will be looking healthy and radiant all through natural choices and healthy diet without the need for beauty products that contain harmful chemicals.

Support your skin care through [...]

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Nutrient supplements might impact brain function

 Nutrition impacts all aspects of health and the body.  What we eat can impact brain function and our mood and new research is constantly being released which indicates that having a good diet and a good supply of nutrients can impact our mental state.

Recently a double-blind placebo-controlled study (1) was conducted to investigate the effect [...]

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Can a multi-nutrient supplement benefit child intelligence?

Back in August I wrote about how diet can impact the brain and behaviour in children.  Nutrition for the brain is something I am very interested in and those of you who follow this blog will see that there is a lot of scientific evidence to show that what we eat can make a [...]

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A few ways that might help to keep ‘back to work’ lethargy at bay

Many people are currently heading back to work after an extended Christmas and New Year break.  It can be tough to get back into the swing of things after having time off and often people feel lacking in energy.  There are a few natural ways that can be useful to help provide a mood [...]

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More evidence that living healthily may reduce the risk of chronic disease

I began last week by writing about diet and lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.  Today I wanted to discuss a research piece(1) with a fabulous title: “Healthy Living Is The Best Revenge”.

The study took place in Germany, the authors wanted to look at the risks of developing major chronic diseases such [...]

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Multivitamins may help to reduce the risk of having a low birth weight baby

There seems to be a run of research being released at the moment looking at pregnancy and fertility related issues, as you can see from my recent blog posts.  In a recent review paper (1) researchers have estimated that 1.5million fewer babies would be born at low birth weights every year if all pregnant [...]

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Can vitamin supplements play a role in reducing the risk of miscarriage?

Since I started the week with a focus on the pregnancy related condition preeclampsia I thought it was a good time to mention a recent study (1) that looked at vitamin supplement use in pregnancy to see if there was any association with the risk of having a miscarriage.  

 

In this study(1), the authors wanted [...]

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Can multi-vitamin supplements help prevent preeclampsia?

In August last year I wrote about the possible role of a diet in the prevention of preeclampsia with specific reference to maintaining a healthy body weight, dietary fibre, fruits, vegetables, antioxidant vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids.  I was very interested to read a recently published study (1) which has found that regular [...]

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