Nutritional Therapy may help you get to the root of your health concerns; establish balance in your health and well being with this special offer.
Offer includes:
1 hour consultation + 30mins follow up consultation
15min Indian Head Massage (for new clients)
Email support in between consultations
Goody bag
Make an appointment now!
one to one nutrition in Fulham and surrounding areas. Home and office visits available.
*offer ends 29 February 2012 (total package £125) offer extended until end of March!
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50% off Nutritional Therapy &
Emotional Balance
Julie loves to share her knowledge about diet and nutrition. She believes everyone should have the opportunity to feel fabulous, energised confident and calm. Julie will help you clean up your diet and uncover issues that may be affecting your energy levels and even weight concerns. Her knowledge will allow you to understand what the best diet is for you and your lifestyle, and will focus on your key objectives. A full medical history is taken and an in-depth consultation follows. You will take away a new way of eating with the full reasons for the recommended changes, and if necessary a dietary supplement may be discussed. Julie always uses dietary changes first, however sometimes it is necessary to supplement with vitamins and minerals.
Francesca uses techniques derived from NLP and hypnotherapy alongside traditional
After an initial consultation with both Julie and Francesca, a plan will be drawn up for the day.
Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, an Indian head massage, AND a goody bag to take away, are all included.
Here are some of the things usually covered:
* Energising nutrition * Weight loss * Food preparation * Menus * Monitoring your thoughts * Understanding and balancing emotions * Who are you when you are at your best? * Freedom from cravings * Improve your relationship with food * Releasing old patterns and strategies * Self love and respect * Learn how to be your own coach
Offer ends 00.00 11 January 2012.
For further details, please contact Francesca on: 07903 954 550 or fran@positivevoice.co.uk Just want nutritional therapy: Contact Julie Deeks 07957 806 207 or nutritionaltherapylink@gmail.com Just want Coaching: Contact Francesca Gordon-Smith: 07903 954 550 or fran@positivevoice.co.uk
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After inviting my friends for dinner, I needed to find a completely gluten free dessert. I set to task with my Mrs Beeton’s cookery book to see if she could inspire me. I converted an old crumble recipe as follow:
Ingredients:
4 oz butter (cold)
6 oz Flour (I used a combination of corn flour and gram flour and ground almonds)
3 oz of sugar (you can use any type of sugar – I used golden caster sugar and some brown sugar)
3 gluten free ginger snap biscuit crumbs (Lazy Days brand) whizzed up in the processor
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
A little water to add to the fruit before cooking
16oz of fruit (frozen is fine) I used frozen and added a few apples and blackberries which I had in the fridge, you can use up any odd bits of fruit, rhubarb works well with strawberries.
Oven preheated to 150 (gas)
In an oven proof dish, add a selection of fruits to fill 2/3 of the way up.
In a large bowl add the butter, sugar and flour mix and rub together to form breadcrumbs. Once you have achieved this, add the spices and biscuit crumbs and mix together gently, poor the crumb mixture over the fruit making sure all the fruit is covered. Press down to compact the mixture.
Cook for 30mins or until brown and bubbling (middle of oven).
Serve with booja booja ginger ice cream. Yummy!!!
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We all know that’s when you need relaxation more than ever.
Take some time out from work and family and the looming excitement of christmas to book yourself a very relaxing Indian Head Massage.
As part of your new healthy lifestyle that you have decided to adopt, to improve your health and well being, energy levels and drive.
Make an appointment now, because you deserve it.
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Looking after your liver could help prevent you from suffering with gallstone.
Watch tonight’s #FoodHospital to see what they do for their patient with gallstones.
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I love soups, they are easy to make, you can freeze them, have them for lunch or dinner and they are super warming on a winters day, this is a favourite!
Sweet Potato Winter Warmer!
A sweet potato soup with chilli and ginger is blended until smooth to serve:
Ingredients:
3 large sweet potatoes peeled and roughly chopped
1 large white potato peeled and roughly chopped
1 pint of chicken or vegetable stock add more if required
1 dessert spoon of grated ginger (add more if you like it hot)
1 small red chilli finely chopped or 1/2 teaspoon of hot chilli powder
1 onion finely chopped
3 cloves of garlic crushed
1 dessert spoon of coconut oil
In a large saucepan, add the oil onions and garlic. Soften over a low heat until the onions and garlic are clear and not brown. Then add all the vegetables and cook for a further 10 minutes until the vegetables are softening.
Add the ginger and chilli, and stir. Add the stock and cook until the vegetables are soft. Taste and add a little salt and pepper and if too spicy a little sugar (just a little bit!).
With a hand blender, smooth the soup and serve.
Lovely with some toasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds and a dusting of paprika.
For added antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits add a teaspoon of turmeric before you blend.
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I would be booja booja maple and pecan ice cream flavour….
Because, it’s amazingly tasty, it’s raw, it’s healthy, it’s smooth and it looks fabulous with some gluten free ginger cake…
What would you be?
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For those of you who remember the clangers, you will understand the title.
Soups are a great way to get lots of vegetables into your diet.
One of my favourite soups, which is really simple is leek and potato soup, all you need is some leeks and potatoes and some stock, infact some recipes use just hot water.
Try this:
3 large leeks, washed and trimmed and chopped into small pieces
2 potatoes (baking) peeled and chopped into small pieces
1 pint of stock (vegetable or chicken)
In a large saucepan, melt a knob or butter and place all the leeks into the pan. Stir, making sure they don’t brown. The idea is to soften the leeks. This will take no longer than 10mins.
Add the chopped potatoes and make sure they get well covered with the leeks and butter. Cook gently for a further 10mins, making sure not to brown the leeks.
Add the stock, and cook until the potatoes are cooked. Let the soup cool, then add some salt and pepper to taste, #Alpro natural yoghurt works well to bring some creaminess . If you would like your soup smooth, use a hand blender to smooth the soup, otherwise reheat and serve with some mini salad sandwiches with egg and watercress and a splash of olive oil.
More recipes, watch this space.
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PCOS can be managed really well using diet. Reducing weight by controlling your blood sugar, can help improve symptoms by reducing the amount of insulin you produce. Insulin will raise the levels of testosterone, the male hormones.
Stress reduction is also a major component. Finding ways to really relax and be calm will also, over time, improve your symptoms. I would highly recommend a course of Indian Head Massage to help relax you.
Balancing your blood sugar levels will improve your mood and help you shed a few pounds and make you feel more energetic so you can do some more excercise.
Remember, there is no magic bullet. Being in control of your health is the key, be patient and you will see results.
Ensure you have good lean protein e.g. organic chicken or oily fish like mackerel, sardines or vegetable protein such as lentils, chickpeas team these with lots of lovely fresh salads and steamed vegetables.
Here is one of my favourite lunches:
Chickpea stew (tinned chickpeas drained) made with garlic, olive oil, small tin of chopped tomatoes cooked slowly on the hob for 30mins. I usually team the stew with beautiful soft round lettuce tossed in olive oil, pepper and lemon juice with chopped cooked beetroots and steamed broccoli and a sprinkle of pumpkin seeds to finish (if you eat fish you could add some anchovies too)
Lovely…
The vegetables can be from the night before, so it’s all very easy to achieve, just make too much for dinner and keep some back for your lunch. Make it a little different and use some Chinese 5 spice in the stew and use sesesame seeds instead of pumpkins seeds.
Enjoy….
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We are often encouraged to reduce our carbohydrate intake. This is purely because we have an abundance of carbohydrate rich foods and snacks in our diets.
Carbohydrates are not bad if eaten in moderation and are unhealthy in excess. If the carbohydrate is not used for energy, it is stored as fat. Carbohydrates are:
Bread, pasta, potatoes, cakes, pastries, sweets and chocolate.
If you love mashed potatoes in the winter, try using half normal potatoes and half sweet potatoes. This will increase the nutrition density of your mash and help prevent the carbohydrate overload. Also consider the quantity of potato on your plate, two dessert spoons is enough. Also add some greens to your plate to fill the plate with even more nutrients and flavour.
The sweet potato orange flesh contains very high levels of betacarotene, which is converted to vitamin A in our bodies. They also contain good amounts of B vitamins, zinc and iron.
Try them baked in their skins with a drizzle of olive oil and some lovely salad leaves sprinkled with pumpkin seeds.
References:
Failla ML, Thakkar SK and Kim JY. In vitro bioaccessibility of beta-carotene in orange fleshed sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas, Lam.). J Agric Food Chem. 2009 Nov
Low JW, Arimond M, Osman N et al. A food-based approach introducing orange-fleshed sweet potatoes increased vitamin A intake and serum retinol concentrations in young children in rural Mozambique. J Nutr. 2007 May;137(5):1320-7. 2007.
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