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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