Author: Kate Arnold
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Dementia – The Missing Link
Dementia and alzheimer’s shocking statistics There are at present approximately 850,000 cases of dementia in the UK and this looks set to rise to over a million by 2025. Nearly 40,000 of those suffering are under the age of 65 yrs old which by today’s standards is considered young. Additionally almost two thirds of the…
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Fabulous fibre
When I was very small, I remember my mother making me sit for hours until I had finished my bowl of All Bran. In those days, I certainly was not allowed up from the kitchen table until I had eaten all my food. To this day I remember the vile little shards of brown sticks…
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What’s wrong with ME?
Chronic fatigue syndrome and ME, a diagnosis that can send shivers up the spine of the most hardy of patients. Instant relief at the diagnosis followed by total dismay at the vague advice on how to get better. Welcome to the complex world of fatigue syndromes. Graded exercise, according to some sufferers is one of…
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The Science of Nutrition
Over the years, I’ve hopefully gone someway to debunk the tirade of nutrition nonsense that has spread like Japanese knotweed into the nooks and crannies of our daily lives. I’ve swayed from being contentious to angry, understanding to out right incensed at the dangerous rise of nutrition gurus with their alternative messages. I’ve taken apart…
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Holiday Heaven
As most of you who follow my articles and social media pages know, over the last ten years I’ve been to the little known island of Hydra in Greece an hour and half by boat from the Athenian port of Piraeus. I first arrived, frazzled and in dire need of a break back in 2009.…
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IBS or just bad bread?
Bread, or more commonly wheat and gluten are the most common ingredients that patients talk about, and not necessarily in a good way! These seemingly harmless ingredients may cause digestive problems like bloating, headaches, fatigue, nausea, IBS etc. More often than not bread is avoided due to a self diagnosis of wheat or gluten intolerance…
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Your gut microbiome
Regular readers of Wellbeing Magazine will know I have a little obsession with the human microbiome which has been ongoing now for many a year. What’s exciting is that this area of medicine, is gaining pace so quickly that everyone is being left slightly out of breath. How does your garden grow? Well not I…
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More awareness less detox
January can be depressing – there I’ve said it and we can now get back to what we were doing! People can put a whole heap of pressure on themselves at the beginning of the year to start new regimes and put the past year behind them. If anything 2016 taught me is that life…