This week’s blog is about the connection between sleep and Alzheimer’s disease. There are around five hundred and twenty thousand cases of Alzheimer’s disease in the UK and it’s fast becoming a real epidemic. It’s something that many of us are more conscious of, and links are being made between […]
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Last Sunday I completed the London Marathon dressed from head to toe as Dame Edna Everage. It was a very hot day, the hottest marathon on record so I’m very proud of that achievement, plus we raised £2,200 for charity. A key part of my training programme was actually walking,
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There are five reasons I’m going to talk about in this blog post about why you might not be getting all the nutrients from your food. There are other reasons, but I think these are the five key ones, and some of the practical ones you can try. Chewing fast:
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We tend to think that gaining weight is something that happens with ageing, but this isn’t the case. It is, however, really important to monitor your body composition, in other words, your ratio of fat, water, bones, and muscle, as you get into older adulthood, to avoid putting yourself at
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Do you ever wake up on a Monday morning feeling groggy, tired, uninspired, or under-energised? Does this have a knock on effect on the rest of your week, where you never really catch up until the weekend when it all starts again? Well, the good news is you’re not alone.
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Can you guess? Not everyone may be recognisable to you so let me introduce you to each of them. Starting from top left we have Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post and Thrive Global and the author of the bestselling books The Sleep Revolution and Thrive. Top middle is
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Anxiety can be caused by any number of things, but one area I’m really interested in currently is mental health, and specifically anxiety. Many people suffer from anxiety in one form or another, but increasingly we’re realising the link between anxiety and digestion. We’ve known for a while that there
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We’ve all heard about people who manage to lose weight, but how often do they maintain the new weight? Dieting is easy initially because you’re full of enthusiasm and can draw on will power for the energy required in the first few weeks. Will power is a finite commodity though
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One of the biggest challenges people face with energy is finding a balance between energy in and energy out, or what is called the energy balance. The amount of energy being expended on a daily basis must be matched by the amount of energy being put into the body. So
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This is one of the most popular questions about sleep that is asked on Google, which is interesting as I think it’s an under-appreciated aspect of weight loss. The fact is, sleep plays a major role in fat loss (and in muscle gain as well). Sleep is a critical factor
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