I love appearing as a guest on the Ady Dayman afternoon show on BBC Radio Leicester. Like me he is a real foodie but it turns out we have more than that in common. Listen to to find out how our pasts are similar in other ways too.
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From a commitment to fostering more forests and preserving peat lands, cleaning up pollution in our inner cities and lowering land use stress, the COP26 Summit hosted in Glasgow this month has created a masterplan that governments around the world are signing up to. Climate talks dominated the last day of the summit, as you might expect of a climate change conference, but with leaders struggling to agree the final outcomes it was a day fraught with challenges. While goverments fight about what they will commit to, what can we do, as individuals, on a daily basis. We can all take small steps to
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If you’re reading this it’s probably because you have frustrating or embarrassing symptoms affecting your gut. These could be anything from bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhoea or reflux, or a combination of several of these are various times. All these things can be really stressful and can be bought on by food sensitivities or intolerances, gut health issues or stress itself. While poor gut health can lead to stress, the actual stress in your life can affect your gut too. And as poor gut health can also bring about brain-symptoms like worry, low-mood and anxiety it’s important to address
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If you’re setting yourself some healthy new year’s resolutions that are more than the cliché ‘I’m going to eat better’ or ‘I’ll join a gym’, healing your gut might be the best place to start. With a growing list of chronic conditions linked to the health of your gut, getting it sorted this year could pay off for years to come. But where to start? From elimination diets and exercise, to identifying the root-cause of issues, here’s a list of 8 gut health resolutions Ali Hutchinson recommends that will put you on the right path. 1. Try an elimination diet We all know that nutrition has a massive
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This week has seen us supporting World Menopause Day the theme of which was Bone Health. We all experience menopause differently but there are some common physiological things that happen to us all as we approach menopause. Before menopause, the body’s production of new bone happens more than the removal of old bone. The opposite happens after menopause when our ovaries stop the production of the hormone estrogen. This leads to increased removal of bone which decreases bone strength and can lead to two things – Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia. Osteoporosis is diagnosed when bone health declines
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Standing in for the usual BBC Radio Leicester presenter last week was Jo Bostock. She spoke to Ali about all thinsg food (as well as movies) and even got into a conversation about the merits of jacket poatatoes! Why you may ask? It came up following the announcemnt of celebrity chef James Martin taking over the Spud U Like franchise of fast food stores. How high does the humble baked potato feature on your weekly meal plans? Listen here - ali appears about 40 mins into the programme
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Have you ever chosen clothes knowing that if you’re having an off day and your tummy is bloated they’ll never fit? Or put a beautiful dress back on the shelf knowing that it’s destined to be one of these items that will languish at the back of your wardrobe because you’ll never know if your tummy is going to show up as a bloated mess or not. This used to be me. I had a wardrobe full of clothes that only ever fit on ‘good day’. Days when my tummy wasn’t distended and cramping! Since changing the way I eat and understanding what was causing my symptoms, plus studying nutrition, gut heath and the
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Do you suffer from IBS and want to know what you can do to relieve IBS symptoms? These tips and advice may help to ease your IBS. If you're one of the estimated 20% of the UK population to be affected by Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) you'll know that at best it's an inconvenience and at worst, it's life-changing, stressful and debilitating. Around twice as many women as men experience IBS and I speak to a lot of women who experience discomfort on a daily basis. While no two people suffer the same IBS symptoms I’ve noticed some common similarities and treatments which can help. Symptoms of IBS
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I love chatting all things health and wellness with Ady Dayman on the BBC. Perhaps that's why I booked to go on the show on my wedding anniversary when we were holidaying and house hunting in Somerset! If you didn't manage to catch the show live have a listen here and for more info on how you can work with me read on ....
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The September Full Moon is a loving, healing and nurturing full moon. Each full moon is given a specific name and because this is generally seen as the month of harvest this September full moon is called a harvest moon. Here in the UK we’re experiencing the changes in the season with the leaves starting to colour and fall and the growing season beginning to shorten as the dark nights draw in. It’s a perfect time to hunker down, reflect on what has, and hasn’t, been serving you and to use this lunar energy of the full moon to guild and support you. At full moon, the moon is on the opposite side
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