Considering Nutritional Therapy? Some top tips to get started…
Considering Nutritional Therapy? Some top tips to get started… If you’ve been thinking about getting some healthy eating advice to support your health and fitness goals, but were a bit unsure where to start, here are some things its helpful to know: Firstly, book your (free) intro call with me. These are online and last for about 25 minutes, and …
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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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Now available – Health Coaching – with or without Nutritional Therapy
After many years working with nutrition clients to build heathy habits, and break unhealthy ones, including for example reducing sugar, alcohol, and eating more vegetables, losing weight, etc I decided it was time to brush up my coaching skills, and get an official Health Coaching qualification. Following several weeks of classes with other health professionals, and a lot of coaching practice …
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Better Bones Nutrition Course Coming Soon!
Online Nutrition Course: ‘Are you looking after your bones?’ delivered by experienced Nutritional Therapist and Nutrition Trainer, Sarah Dodd, NutDip mNNA (CNM) * ? Did you know that half of all women in the UK will develop osteoporosis? * ? Did you know that osteoporosis can be preventable and that its potentially very serious consequences can be somewhat mitigated …
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Your indispensable guide to Breastfeeding Nutrition (Part 1)
What’s so special about breastmilk anyway? Congratulations on your little one! You may already be convinced of the convenience and closeness of breastfeeding. As a nutritional therapist – one of my favourite health benefits of breastfeeding your baby has to be the superior, bespoke composition of nutrients which change with each feed, and correspond to the baby’s life stage, and the …
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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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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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Food and Mood: How can Vitamin B12 deficiency affect my mood?
Deficiency of B vitamins has been proven to lead to depression and irritability, with B3, B6, folate (also known as folic acid) and particularly Vitamin B12. The food/mood link is strongest for vitamin B12 deficiency which at its worst may cause anything from depression, poor memory, panic attacks, fatigue, hallucinations, and even mania and psychosis. Amongst its many other roles, …
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Nutrition highlights – Grapefruit, Avocado & Cucumber salad, Pork Schnitzel and Potato Salad…
So as many of the Bottle Bazaar Wine Tasting Club members will know – India Marshall-Roads has asked me to give some nutrition information on the food that accompanies the wine… So this delicious looking meal (which accompanies the Gruner Veltliner wine) is pork schnitzel, potato salad and grapefruit, avocado and cucumber salad… The nutritional highlights then, starting particularly with …
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Too stressed to cook / eat / drink / stop eating…
or drinking or eating the ‘wrong’ foods? You’re not alone… Rate your stress… When clients come to see me I will typically ask how stressed they are on a scale of 1-10… This is either because they’re showing signs of stress or because they tell me that stress is making them ill in some way – and its …
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