Although it’s impossible to remove all the stress in our lives, by focusing on what we can control we increase the chances of reducing stress and maintain stable blood glucose levels.

We don’t know how it’s going to play out and so feeling stressed at present is normal. However, psychological stress impacts immune function, so managing the stress we’re feeling is critically important if we want our immune system to function optimally.

If you've been battling to lose weight, even though you're trying to avoid refined carbohydrates and you’ve added nutrient-dense foods and exercise to your life, you may find the solution is learning to manage your stress levels more effectively. In other words, the key to losing weight may lie between your ears.

With a brand New Year and a new decade upon us, let’s use neuroscience to make our new resolutions become ‘sticky’ habits.

Although the brain is an enormously complex organ its maintenance and care doesn’t have to be complicated. With so many ‘health-guru’s’ calling for lots of special supplements to support brain health – with little to no evidence to support such – keeping the basics in mind is more sustainable and less expensive.

The enormous hype supporting the use of superfoods has become a very lucrative business, and many people are fooled by the promises made by manufacturers and suppliers of these products. Whether they are useful for enhancing brain health is still not well researched. However, their nutrient profile suggests they may be supportive of our very busy, energy-demanding and antioxidant-requiring brain tissue

It seems that every other week the media showcases a new, exotic superfood from some hard-to-pronounce jungle or desert, or a super brain supplement, promising to remove any traces of memory loss and boost cognition to untold heights.

There's a lot of news at present regarding the health benefits of coffee, and most people embrace this news, because everyone loves hearing good news about their (potentially) bad habits. Before we get too self-satisfied with our coffee habits and the recent news, let's consider the facts.

You know that wonderful feeling you have after waking up from a fabulous sleep? You're relaxed and happy, alert but calm! Unfortunately, fewer and fewer people are experiencing that wonderful feeling because sleep, or, more accurately, the lack of it, is becoming a huge problem around the world. Unfortunately, the problem started with one of mankind's most celebrated inventions. Edison’s famous light bulb invention in the 1880s changed our approach to the "daylight–wake-up" vs. "nighttime–sleep-time" pattern that we had become accustomed to from the beginning of time, and which even single-celled organisms adhere to.

Researchers are uncovering how exercise keeps our brain young an healthy and analyzing walking women (and men) provided some solid evidence. Walking for even an hour-and-a-half a week, helped active women to outperform less active women on cognitive assessments. The study’s author was surprised at this result, as walking seemed to be a pretty non-strenuous activity, yet held real cognitive benefits.

This is a delicious dessert, as well as being a perfect breakfast if you are lucky to have any leftovers the next day! It is full of great flavour, fibre and fruity berries and the nut cream adds a gorgeously creamy finish to the dessert.  Apart from the great ‘brain friendly’ ingredients, it’s also very satisfying, so a little goes a long way. 

Eating well isn’t enough – you also have to digest, absorb and eliminate well for optimal health. The taboo subject. No one wants to talk about this aspect of health, but it is one of the most important aspects of keeping yourself healthy.

Eating well isn’t enough – you also have to digest, absorb and eliminate well for optimal health. You’ve read about the importance of digestion, so it's time to look at the next step in the process of turning your food into you.

Eating well isn’t enough – you also have to digest, absorb and eliminate well for optimal health. You are not what you eat! When you hear the saying "you are what you eat" you need to remember that’s only true if you are digesting and absorbing your food. Otherwise, you can be eating the best food, even sourcing specific foods for their nutritive value, but wasting a lot of time and money, because your digestive system isn’t delivering these nutrients to your bloodstream.