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Eating healthy food is expensive, right?   It really doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, many ready meals and processed foods cost more than a home prepared meal or snack.  In no particular order, here's my tips for eating healthily without breaking the bank: GENERAL Cut down on meat and fish or even go veggie a few times a week. Vegetables are generally much cheaper than meat. In the UK we tend to focus a meal around meat, often at the expense of eating enough veg. For optimum nutrition, aim for 50% of your plate being vegetables. Batch cook. Making enough to put in...

We've all heard of the phrase 'New Year, New You.' The idea seems great - promising ourselves to get fitter and healthier in the new year, especially after a binge over the Christmas and New Year period. I wonder if too many of us are trying to make too many changes too fast.  Are we setting unrealistic targets or timescales? A good proportion of resolutions seem to falter even before January has finished.  Changing to a healthier lifestyle can take time, and it's very easy to be too hard on ourselves at first.  Some of us may want to lose weight. Are our...

Brussels sprouts and Christmas – you know you can’t escape those little leafy green things all the way through to New Year don’t you? Fear not – you’ll be doing yourself a real favour by eating as many brussels as possible. They are now in season so should be fresh and packed full of nutritional goodness ready for your plate. Here’s a quick run down of some of their main benefits:- Can help to lower cholesterol providing they are steamed (or even eat raw) due to more fibre being retained when cooked in this way As a member of the cruciferous vegetables family (that...

Our own selection of 10 foods that have all been shown to provide heart health properties.

It’s safe to say we all experience stress in some form and to varying degrees in our lives. Stress may come in various ways and be brought on by different factors, which include mental, physical, emotional, environmental, lifestyle and relationships. Our body’s reaction to stress can determine the effect it has on our health. What happens when we become stressed?Stress is likely to affect the entire body. Our immune system; cells and gut health are all interconnected, with a problem in one area having a negative effect on other areas of the body. As an example – IBS is commonly triggered by stress. Nutrient absorption from food may be reduced; elimination...