Is Irritable Bowel Syndrome ruining your life? Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a functional bowel disorder. Symptoms include painful cramping, bloating, gas, bleeding, diarrhoea and constipation. Wider ranging symptoms include chronic fatigue syndrome, migraines, cystitis, sexual dysfunction and depression. Each person experiences IBS differently but most report a marked reduction in quality of life. Symptoms
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A recent report by the Soil Association showed that shoppers spend more than £33 million per week on all things organic and 86% of households now buy organic products, with dairy and fresh fruit and veg making up over half of these figures. But with conflicting information being thrown at us as to whether organic
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var vaunit_unit_type=0; var vaunit_width=300; var vaunit_height=250; var vaunit_id=1176; In the previous article I focused on how exercise and positive emotions can have a positive effect on heart health. We’re now going to have a brief look at a couple of other lifestyle factors that affect the heart and some of the ways nutrition can keep
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February is here and brings with it Valentine’s Day and National Heart Month. The perfect time then to talk a little bit about the heart and what you can do to keep it healthy. In this article I’m going to focus on how positivity and love really can make your heart healthier, as well as
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Okay, probably not the most popular topic of conversation to come up but it’s an important one. If you’re a man, you have a prostate gland and looking after it is just one more reason to get out there and get healthy, start exercising, cut down on the booze and give up those ciggies! Think
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Psoriasis is a skin disorder, characterised by red and silvery white scaly patches on the skin which can be itchy and be painful at times. Despite intensive research the mechanism of psoriasis and the process by which a flare-up is triggered is not fully known. However there is evidence showing that diet can help control
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If everyone in the UK ate their ‘five a day’ and kept to recommended levels of salt and unhealthy fats, 33,000 deaths could be prevented or delayed every year, an Oxford University study has found. The research, co-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), highlights the difference getting your five a day could make to
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Nutritionists in Oxfordshire Check Our Directory Nutrition is a topic that I up until recently I thought was just about making sure that you had your 5-a-day and maybe a multi-vitamin now and again. That was until I started to search around for some more information on the subject to help me with some health
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I just saw this video on-line and thought that some of you may find it interesting. It is from a report on processed foods by American news channel CBN. It discusses monosodium glutamate (MSG), trans fats, high fructose corn syrup and white flour and why we should maybe start thinking about avoiding them. How to
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