Considering a gut microbiome test to improve your health and wellbeing?
Have you considered exploring your digestive health through a gut microbiome test? At Healthy Herts Nutrition, we take gut health very seriously. If you’re looking to better understand how your diet may be affecting your gut—and in turn, how your gut health influences the rest of your body—we offer tools to help you gain insights and address your health using …
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The Food Mood Connection: are you missing out on some powerful mental health tools?
The numbers of people in the UK with anxiety and depression are increasing – and figures also show that British diets are lacking in crucial mood health nutrients. This presents a useful opportunity to consider the mood impact of what we’re consuming. Research demonstrates there are many specific mechanisms where food affects mood, including sugar intake, common nutrient deficiencies, suboptimal …
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6 Nutrition Tips for a Healthy Menopause
Nutrition and lifestyle can play an important role during menopause by supporting bone, heart and mental health, plus weight maintenance / loss and promoting overall health. Women today spend about one third of their lives in, around and after menopause. This transition can cause significant health issues and may affect her relationships and career. In order to support some of …
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Better Bones: can nutrition help?
Can nutrition support healthy bones? Absolutely it can. Nutrition, lifestyle and exercise have lots to offer when it comes to improving bone mineral density (aka BMD). Experts agree that regardless of our age, there are ways we can look after our bones and potentially prevent this pernicious disease and it’s associated pain and immobility. The statistics are worrying – around half …
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Testimonials
What do clients say about Healthy Herts Nutritional Therapy? I am fortunate to work with some very dedicated clients on improving their individual nutrition habits and who work extremely hard to reach their health and fitness goals. These are some words from them regards working with me as a Nutritional Therapist on everything from losing weight to special diets …
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Healthy Hertfordshire…
Expert nutrition coaching relies on educating clients on a healthy lifestyle, as well as healthy eating. Those issues are best served by the individual professionals themselves… Introducing my good health ‘colleagues’ from Letchworth and beyond… Healthy food… 🙂 Fairhaven Wholefoods Letchworth supplier of a large range all things gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, chemical-free and vegan. They sell everything from raw sauerkraut and …
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Which nutrient can reduce fatigue, headache duration, assist constipation and aid mood?
…water…?! Yep. Its underrated isn’t it. I estimate that one in three of my nutritional therapy clients aren’t drinking enough water. I know this because its part of my standard set of questions in the consultation… and these clients actually TELL me they dodge the h2O. This just highlights an opportunity to build a new healthy habit into their day, …
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Immune supporting foods
What’s your recipe for keeping your immune system healthy as possible right now? My clients have been requesting ideas of things they can do to help support their immune systems at this time. Here are my top 7 (updated) immune support tips staying as healthy as possible: Eat ‘the rainbow’ – how does this help? Brightly coloured vegetables contain …
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Help – I’ve put on weight! How do I get back on track?
So this has been a common complaint over lockdown – here are my top 3 recommendations of things you can start doing straightaway… Firstly – cut yourself some slack Its been a challenging few months and dealing with all of these changes has taken some deep breaths, to say the least. So, if you’ve put on a few pounds, …
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How to Support your Immune System with Everyday Foods
Sarah’s Immune – Supporting Everyday Foods – Quick Shopping List I know from analysing my clients’ food diaries that very few of them are getting sufficient nutrients on a regular day. To keep healthy during these times in particular we need to pay extra attention to our health and to ensure our diets are nutritious. We can help …
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