I am Coeliac! Give me Gluten-Free! Spare me from Gluten! Deliver me from Cross-Contamination! I was diagnosed in 2011 around the same time as Pizza Express became the first pizza chain in the UK to introduce a gluten-free menu. Genius Bread was being sold via retail and wowing people previously limited to unspeakably bad bread on prescription. Relative to the dark ages of being gluten-free ...
Living Well
Keto vs Vegan Diets – Which is better for health?
Lifestyle choices that support long term well-being are as much a passion for me as great tasting and sustainably produced food. This is why I write on topics such as the Fasting Mimicking Diet and Exercise Snacking. During study for a degree in Nutritional Therapy I intend to write more about diet and healthy lifestyles whilst being aware of my own layperson limits and being careful not to repeat ...
Exercise Snacking Goals & Results
What is Exercise Snacking? How it is different and potentially better than other exercise? What health & fitness goals is it suited to? Why might you choose to experiment with it? Exercise Snacking for Health & Fitness answers these questions. Read that first if you are new to Exercise Snacking. If you are convinced to give it a go and want guide on how jump to Exercise Snacking How To ...
Exercise Snacking How To Guide
What is Exercise Snacking? How it is different and potentially better than other exercise? What health & fitness goals is it suited to? Why might you choose to experiment with it? Exercise Snacking for Health & Fitness answers these questions. Read that first if you are new to Exercise Snacking. Exercise Snacking Goals & Results shares my personal experience of Exercise Snacking ...
Exercise Snacking for Health & Fitness
What is Exercise Snacking? How it is different and potentially better than other exercise? What health & fitness goals is it suited to? Why might you choose to experiment with it? These are the questions I am going to answer within this post. If you are convinced to give it a go and want a guide on how jump to Exercise Snacking How To Guide. Exercise Snacking Goals & Results shares ...
Personalized Nutrition Blood Glucose Testing Results & Reflections
Within this post I share my personal results and reflections from blood glucose testing using a protocol based on the Personalised Nutrition Project and the Robb Wolf 7 Day Carb Test. In a companion Blood Glucose Testing DIY Guide I describe why and how to do this yourself together with references and resources. The goal of this sharing is to provide a useful point of reference and comparison ...
Personalized Nutrition DIY Blood Glucose Testing Guide
This is a practical Blood Glucose Testing Guide covering why and how to use blood glucose testing to discover your highly personal blood glucose response to different foods. Understanding the response that different foods provoke for you enables you to make informed choices that can lead to improved health and well-being in the short and long term. Within this guide I cover the basics of what ...
The Lodge Space at Canada Water
The Lodge Space is a health club, cafe, kitchen, yoga studio and fitness centre in Canada Water just opened as of September 2017. It offers great coffee, delicious food, warm & relaxing indoors, beautiful outdoors. Activities include Yoga, Pilates and a range of Fitness classes including High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Holistic treatments including a range of Massages are available. ...
Fasting Mimicking Diet Results & Reflections
Within this post I present and reflect on Fasting Mimicking Diet results after completing my first cycle. In my Fasting Mimicking Diet Do-It-Yourself Guide I described the diet, the potential health benefits, and my personal and specific reasons and goals for using it. I offered guidance, tools and resources for others considering it. If you haven’t read that yet I recommend doing so ...
Fasting Mimicking Diet Do-It-Yourself Guide
What is the Fasting Mimicking Diet? The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) is a 5 day diet plan designed by longevity researchers and tested on yeast, mice and humans with encouraging results. Positive impacts of the diet include multi-body system regeneration, enhanced cognitive performance and healthspan. It is expected that the biomarkers that the FMD impacts upon can lead to reduced risk for ...
Kaliyoga Spain Yoga Retreat, 100% Gluten-Free
Kaliyoga Spain I have a yogi friend and colleague, Beth, who has been to over thirty yoga retreats around the world. Beth loves her yoga and her retreats. I love Google, but Beth actually has it beat *just this once*. When I want guidance on an amazing retreat, I don't Google it, I ask Beth! I asked Beth for a retreat in Europe offering yoga suitable for a beginner to intermediate level yogi ...
5 Best Things About Being Coeliac
I have enjoyed reading many lists of the trials and tribulations and downsides and dilemmas of being a coeliac. I enjoy them not because the things within are fun or nice but because I can identify with them and it feels better that they are shared and that there is a community of coeliacs that support each other with advice, encouragement and empathy. I have not ever encountered a list of good ...
Kidney Stones: Part Two – The Stent
In my Kidney Stone series, Part One talked about the horror of my first stone which began to pass from the kidney and got exactly as far as the very top of the ureta leading from the kidney to the bladder before incapacitating me and provoking a dear love of morphine. Part Three will cover the intervention strategy I will follow to reduce the risk of future stone formation and provide all the ...
Kaliyoga Italy: Yoga Retreat, Gluten-Free
Kaliyoga Italy: The Short Version Kaliyoga is a well-established provider of Yoga Retreats in Europe with current locations in Italy, Spain and UK. Some of the retreats combine Yoga with another activity such as walking or horse riding or a detox theme. I spent a week at Kaliyoga Italy, located in Puglia (Southern Italy, the Itrian Valley) for a Yoga Retreat. What I experienced there was ...
Kidney Stones Experience: Part One
Ironically, my first post in this Living Well category is going to be a story about living not-so-well thanks to kidney stones. Search online for kidney stones and you will quickly find mentions that females that have both passed a stone and given birth find the former more painful. What I have not found to date is the relative rating for *failing* to pass a kidney stone, which instead blocks ...
