All the pregnancy books were warning about pregnancy edema - swelling of the legs. I have luckily been able to avoid it - up until now. But the past couple weeks I’ve come home at the end of the day and kicked off my shoes only to be greeted to a pair of ankles that […]
Filed under: water, nutrition, diet, exercise, pregnancy, edema on January 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
Good common sense is all too rare when it comes to advice about what to eat but take the time to read this New York Times article about how food has been redefined as nutrition, turned into an industry and most of that common sense removed in the interests of profit. This can be seen […]
Filed under: organic, nutrition, diet, nutritional supplements, synthetic supplements on January 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing I find hard about pregnancy nutrition is getting enough calcium. My doctor listed a bunch of things I should be having every day - a couple glasses of milk, a bowl of yoghurt, cheese. I knew I couldn’t stomach it for long, so I asked The LifeCo dietician, Emine Şahin for some alternatives.
The […]
Filed under: milk, calcium, nutrition, pregnancy on December 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the great things about working with The LifeCo is that you get access to a lot of experts on healthy living.
Paul Harper is a Naturopath who specializes in exercise and nutrition (and contributes regularly to our blog). Every month he prepares a presentation on a different health topic for people at The LifeCo. […]
Filed under: nutrition, diet, pregnancy on December 11th, 2007 | No Comments »
Unbeknownst to the majority of consumers the EU has been debating the regulation, and in some cases banning, of nutritional supplements and functional foods over the past few years. This debate is reaching a climax and could directly affect the consumers choice regarding what supplements than can buy and where they can buy them.
This debate […]
Filed under: Uncategorized, health, food, nutrition, beauty, nutritional supplements, synthetic supplements, naturally occurring standards, vitamin E, beta carotene, whole foods, functional foods on October 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
A colleague of mine sent an email highlighting what different families eat in different countries around the world, and their weekly food expenditure (see highlights below). I had originally seen this in Time Magazine - for more info see the full slideshow.
It’s interesting (read: shocking) to see how processed foods make up a majority of the […]
Filed under: food, nutrition, diet on September 19th, 2007 | No Comments »