Nutrition highlights – Roast Chicken, Mango and Ginger Salad
India Marshall-Roads from Bedfordshire’s Bottle Bazaar’s Wine Club has asked me to give some nutrition information on the meals that accompany her weekly wine choice. This week its the turn of Nigel Slater’s Roast Chicken, Mango and Ginger Salad. This delicious recipe is really summery, the mango gives lots of colour and offers an array of health benefits. Mango Firstly, it has to …
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Nutrition highlights – Souk Spiced Aubergine with Walnuts, Pomegranate and Tahini Yoghurt with Tandoori Chicken
India Marshall-Roads from Bedfordshire’s Bottle Bazaar’s Wine Club has asked me to give some nutrition information on the meals that accompany her weekly wines. This week its the turn of Souk Spiced Aubergines with Walnuts, Pomegranate and Tahini yoghurt with Tandoori Chicken. This meal contains a nice set of immune and cardiovascular health supporting nutrients including plenty of fibre – if …
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15 ways to eat more oily fish (& what is an oily fish anyway?)
So after discussing how to get more oily fish into our diets with clients and most recently just this morning with my friends, it is apparent that many people really struggle with this. Fish and nutrition have a close relationship… A large body of evidence points to eating oily fish regularly to help lower blood pressure and help to reduce …
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Are you getting enough Vitamin D? (Updated)
As a nutritional therapist, lots of people ask me about Vitamin D (cholecalciferol). So what’s all the fuss about? Well, people are right to be concerned – especially at this time of year (Sept to March)… In the winter, we cannot synthesise Vitamin D (known as cholecalciferol) from sun exposure. This is because in the UK we don’t receive adequate sun, …
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Healthy eating tips – switching from white rice to brown rice
OK, if you want to start eating better – here is 1 easy way to do it: switch from white to brown rice Why is brown rice healthier than white rice? Brown rice has a nuttier more complex taste, and contains more fibre and manganese, iron and zinc than plain white rice, which has been stripped of these nutritional bonuses in order to …
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