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Spring Clean your Health

By McLeod Jan 02 Oct, 2015 health, health coaching, nutritionist healthy eating, how to eat healthy, Spring Refresh

Refresh & Spring Clean your Health.

Spring is about renewal, about new beginnings.

It makes it the perfect time to refresh your health.

Listen to your body

By McLeod Jan 24 Jun, 2015 health, health coaching, nutritionist health imbalance, how to be healthy

Listen to your body. Prevention is better than cure.

The body’s aim is to maintain balance across its systems that together comprise your body.

These systems are interconnected and interdependent.

The body constantly monitors these systems to determine if they are in balance. If it finds them out of balance, it makes adjustments to bring them back into balance

What to know more? Read on.

Link between BMI and cancer?

By McLeod Jan 31 May, 2015 health, nutritional medicine health trends, how to be healthy, over-eating

Is there is a link between BMI and cancer?

We know obesity has a link to high blood pressure, blood sugar issues and heart problems.

We know obesity has the potential to undermine our health.

A recent study has highlighted the link between cancer and BMI.

To understand more read on.

Nourish your health …. or genes?

By McLeod Jan 07 May, 2015 health, nutritional medicine how to be healthy, nutrigenomics

Nourish your health … or should it be nourish your genes.

I am sure you know nutrition and lifestyle choices impact the quality of health.

However did you know that nutrition and lifestyle choices can influence your health through your genes?

Enter stage left a new term, nutrigenomics. An important new area of study that will be instrumental in helping us uncover new strategies for preventing or treating disease.

Want to know more? Read on.

Easy healthy food swaps

By McLeod Jan 21 Apr, 2015 diets, health how to be healthy, how to eat healthy

Great food swaps.

We are so often told not to eat a food, however we are not often told what to replace it with.

Here is some practical based guidance on 3 categories of food swaps you can try.

Superfoods, some newcomers …

By McLeod Jan 07 Apr, 2015 diets, health healthy eating, healthy food, superfoods

Super foods, some newcomers to the scene.

Yes, you know I have some reservations about using the term superfood. However if I can use the term to catch your interest to talk to you about some new great tasting and nutrient packed foods, you will see me use the term superfood. :-))

So, here for your enjoyment are some new superfood kids on the bloack.