Sue Wharton
Nurturing Holistic Well-Being: A Guide to Staying Healthy Beyond the Feast During Christmas
This festive guide gives practical tips on how to stay mentally and physically healthy over the Christmas period whilst still having fun.
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CINNAMON DAYS - CIC
Providing Low-Carb Nutritional Support and Education
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Isabel Hemmings
- Nov 17
- 12 min
Top 10 foods for metabolic health!
We often talk about the foods we need to avoid to improve our metabolic health. But did you know there are foods we can eat that actually...
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Isabel Hemmings
- Nov 3
- 6 min
How to escape the tyranny of hunger!
Hunger is painful and uncomfortable and diets which restrict calories often fail. But we can tackle hunger, and succeed in weight loss
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Isabel Hemmings
- Oct 25
- 8 min
Stay Healthy this Winter with Vitamin D
As we move into the cooler months it’s a great idea to start taking a daily dose of Vitamin D for the Winter months. In the summer we are...
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Sue Wharton
- Oct 23
- 5 min
10 things you can do to reduce your risk of heart disease
Heart disease is still a major cause of disability and death despite pharmaceutical advances in drugs to control blood pressure, thin the...
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Isabel Hemmings
- Sep 15
- 7 min
Friend or foe? – the truth about Fructose
Fructose is the sweetest of all sugars and is naturally found in fruit and honey. Table sugar or sucrose, is made up of equal portions of...
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Sue Wharton
- Aug 7
- 8 min
Every meal matters! Understanding nutrients and weight management
Have you ever wondered what happens to your food once you have digested it? What is the destination of the individual nutrients in your...
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Sue Wharton
- Jun 13
- 7 min
Calories, calories, calories and not a nutrient in sight!
If you are an obsessive calorie counter perhaps it is time to consider what a calorie actually is and think about whether counting...
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Isabel Hemmings
- May 26
- 5 min
Why Magnesium Matters for Metabolic Health
Magnesium is essential to every cell in the human body and needed for many critical functions – you really can’t live without it! Over...
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Isabel Hemmings
- Apr 27
- 9 min
Cut the junk food, but don't stop there - choose nutrient-dense foods for optimal health!
Many of us are now cutting out the junk food, but unless we’re careful, we could still end up missing out on key nutrients. In the UK...
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Sue Wharton
- Mar 22
- 7 min
3 hacks to suppress blood glucose spikes
Whenever you eat food containing starches or sugar, the effect will be to raise your blood glucose level causing a blood glucose ‘spike’....
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Isabel Hemmings
- Feb 16
- 7 min
Why Muscles Matter!
We often take our muscles for granted, but from our forties onwards we start to lose muscle, and if muscle loss continues, it can have...
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Sue Wharton
- Jan 16
- 8 min
How do low-fat and low-carb diets match up to our 5 weight loss criteria?
Losing weight is relatively easy but keeping it off is extremely hard! So, does it matter which diet method you use to lose weight? The...
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Isabel Hemmings
- Dec 16, 2022
- 5 min
Indulge in the good stuff this Christmas!
Food is the centrepiece of a great Christmas and many of the foods we eat during the festive season are very special. Whilst we may worry...
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Sue Wharton
- Nov 28, 2022
- 6 min
Food for thought – how to protect your aging brain
When it comes to aging, we have no choice but to succumb to the march of time on our bodies. However, though we can’t choose whether to...
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Isabel Hemmings
- Oct 28, 2022
- 6 min
Why gut health matters
A healthy gut is fundamental to health and wellbeing. At its most basic, our digestive system is a tube through which food travels and...
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Sue Wharton
- Sep 14, 2022
- 4 min
Is your eating out of control?
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? Perhaps you use food to help you deal with emotional issues like stress, or maybe you...
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Isabel Hemmings
- Aug 16, 2022
- 8 min
Why low-carb is best for PCOS
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) affects 10% of women in the UK and is the leading cause of female infertility worldwide. At its core,...
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Sue Wharton
- Jul 18, 2022
- 5 min
Aging, menopause and weight gain
Let’s start with a shocking fact: Women are three times more likely to become obese or have metabolic syndrome after the menopause than...
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Sue Wharton
- Jun 5, 2022
- 4 min
Is your pear-shaped figure a sign of lipoedema?
June is lipoedema awareness month, and more awareness of this potentially crippling disease affecting up to 10% of women is certainly...
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