Beatrice Caffrey is a plant-based Chef, and nutritionist and shares her go-to dish for increasing Vitamin D levels.Vitamin D is rich in...

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Registered Nutritionist & Naturopath Lauren Windas shares a quick and easy winter warming stew recipe. If you are vegetarian you can always swap out the chicken for tempeh of tofu.
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This Children's Mental health week, our in house expert Dr Christie Lewis shares the importance of parents looking after their own mental wellbeing and top tips on what you can prioritise to benefit yourself and your family.
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 Considered adding more plant based eating to your diet but unsure where to start?

Last week we spoke to Beatrice, founder of The Nourished Bowl

A certified nutrition and health coach Beatrice has adopted a plant based diet for both herself and her family for the past 5 years and felt many benefits.

Here she shares some top tips for incorporating more plant based eating in to your diet and shares a great recipe too. Enjoy!

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Many of us have fallen into a sugar trap over the past year with lockdown, where sweet treats and snacking have become second nature. 

Since we naturally enjoy the taste of sweet foods, it is easy for the occasional treat to become part of our daily routine without us realising. As a result, when we stop, we grow cravings.

Sugar is often regarded as a pleasure by our brain, which leads to an insatiable need for more of it. 

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What happens when we’re in a stress state? When we become stressed, we move into our sympathetic nervous system, or what is more commonly known as ‘fight or flight’. When we’re in this state it takes a conscious effort to bring us back into our parasympathetic nervous system, what is known as ‘rest and digest’.
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For many the uncertainty we are all facing and the inability to plan has been a source of stress and anxiety. Especially because we know the pandemic is still here, we are having to ‘live with it’.

Whilst there is positive news about successful vaccination trials, more information is still needed. It’s no surprise that anxiety levels have increased by up to 50% according to some studies, in recent weeks.

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