People who have know me a while will know of the years I spent struggling with a rare condition called interstitial cystitis. You have probably never heard of it but any of you reading that has experienced a severe bladder infection will recognise the symptoms I lived with every day for about 12 years. I…
Tag: menopause
Is sleep a challenge for you?
Sleep is so important to our health and something so many of us either take for granted or struggle with. It can be a huge issue for women approaching or transitioning through menopause. It was a topic that came up during chat with the wonderful Nutrition Talent team for the humans of nutrition podcast to…
Beware the Menopause ads!
The Advertising Standards Authority has jumped on supplement companies for how they are advertising their products to menopausal women. They use testimonials and great words to sell products – but misleading consumers is not ok. Especially not when the target group may be particularly vulnerable to such advertising. If you are having a tough time…
How did you sleep last night?
I slept badly last night. To be more accurate, I hardly slept at all. I went to bed and couldn’t fall asleep, dozed but by 2am it was clear that the more I lay there the more frustrating it would become. Time to get up and do something. For me that’s make a milky drink,…
Exciting!! Live Book Share
Thank you to Maisons-Laffitte International for allowing me to share some recipes from my new book Eating Well for Menopause! It was a lovely morning ending with lunch with some lovely women. It was nice to share the journey of writing the book – how Laura and I got to that point, why we think…
Minding the Zs and Ps
Laura and I are presenting to Nutritionists in Industry at their Women’s Health meeting bringing up the lesser spoken about issues that affect women through and post menopause. Sleep and bladder issues are often mentioned by women but often in passing. There is often a sense that they are inevitable and just have to be…
Testimonials from other Nutritionists
In our work to improve the support we could give to the women we were work with, we learnt a lot about menopause. It seems that we were part of a revolution. In the last year, menopause has become a hot topic. In producing the Eating Well for Menopause book and on-line courses. it became…
Minding Me: Reframing Menopause
The focus of the retreat was food and nutrition, this content was something I was confident about after all the work with Let’s Talk Food and Laura. The venue was picked for its beauty and intimacy created by the hostess, an experienced, vegetarian chef. Yet I think I had underestimated the wider benefits of a…
Would you like to cook with Soya?
Thanks to the isoflavones, sometimes referred to as phytoestrogens, soya has been shown to be very effective for reducing hot flushes in menopausal women. In addition, soya also has a beneficial effect on heart health risk and cholesterol levels – both tend to increase around menopause. Despite a fear that phytoestrogens may not be helpful…
Out now – Soya & Phytoestrogens
We did it! We have launched our mini-book on soya phytoestrogens. The what, why and how much – what are they, why should we eat them and how much is a good amount. Phytoestrogens can sound a bit scary – a term that makes them sound a bit like a chemical to be avoided. They…
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