Menopause can be a worrying and unpleasant time: hot flushes, mood swings, insomnia, higher risk of osteoporosis and other conditions, not to mention the loss of fertility and sense of ageing that can open up whole chasms of emotion.
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Category Archives: Health Matters
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Focus on Injury
When you’re dealing with sprains, breaks, cuts and inflammation, nutrition isn’t necessarily the first thing that comes to mind. And yet your body needs more nutrients than ever at this time to provide raw materials and co-factors, both for its immediate response to injury, and for the entire wound healing process.
In fact, with a diet that is supportive of your tendons, muscles, bones and other tissue, you may be less likely to injure yourself in the first place – be it from sports injuries, repetitive strain injury or breaks resulting from weakened bones.
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Allergies & Intolerances
Over 1 in 5 people in the UK suffer from hay fever, and hospital admissions for food allergies have increased fivefold in the last 10 years. Around 1 in 70 children may now be affected by peanut allergies and many more are struggling with intolerances to foods such as wheat and dairy. So, apart from avoiding the foods or other triggers in question, how can nutrition help, and what is the difference between a true allergy and an intolerance?
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Digestive System Problems?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the most common gastro-intestinal disorder reported to GPs and up to 50% of referrals to gastroenterologists are for IBS. Patients may suffer recurrent abdominal pain, allergies and severe bloating with diarrhoea and/or constipation. It is more common in women, especially between ages 20-40 years. Symptoms include pain low down on the left and/or right of the abdomen. There is often discomfort just below the stomach. There are usually loud bowel sounds, which can be embarrassing. Patients can experience tiredness, nausea and be very windy.
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Do You Want to Lose Weight?
An increase in weight can often be linked to a digestive system that is out of kilter. My highly successful approach to weight loss for my patients is through treating any imbalance in the digestive system; this approach helps the weight stay off. My treatment for digestive issues was recently featured in The Guardian.
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