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After years of struggle with my health I found what worked for me and I want to share my experiences, recipes, helpful tips and even snippets from my day-to-day life in this blog.
my COP 26 action plan
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What can I do post the COP26 Summit?

From a commitment to fostering more forests and preserving peat lands, cleaning up pollution in our inner cities and lowering land use stress, the COP26 Summit hosted in Glasgow this month has created a masterplan that governments around the world are signing up to. Climate talks dominated the last day of the summit, as you might expect of a climate change conference, but with leaders struggling to agree the final outcomes it was a day fraught with challenges. While goverments fight about what they will commit to, what can we do, as individuals, on a daily basis. We can all take small steps to

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my gut and stress
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Is stress affecting my Gut?

If you’re reading this it’s probably because you have frustrating or embarrassing symptoms affecting your gut. These could be anything from bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhoea or reflux, or a combination of several of these are various times. All these things can be really stressful and can be bought on by food sensitivities or intolerances, gut health issues or stress itself. While poor gut health can lead to stress, the actual stress in your life can affect your gut too. And as poor gut health can also bring about brain-symptoms like worry, low-mood and anxiety it’s important to address

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how to heal my gut in 2022
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New year resolutions to support your Gut

If you’re setting yourself some healthy new year’s resolutions that are more than the cliché ‘I’m going to eat better’ or ‘I’ll join a gym’, healing your gut might be the best place to start. With a growing list of chronic conditions linked to the health of your gut, getting it sorted this year could pay off for years to come. But where to start? From elimination diets and exercise, to identifying the root-cause of issues, here’s a list of 8 gut health resolutions Ali Hutchinson recommends that will put you on the right path. 1. Try an elimination diet We all know that nutrition has a massive

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menopause help in Frome and Somerset
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Menopause and Bone Health

This week has seen us supporting World Menopause Day the theme of which was Bone Health. We all experience menopause differently but there are some common physiological things that happen to us all as we approach menopause. Before menopause, the body’s production of new bone happens more than the removal of old bone. The opposite happens after menopause when our ovaries stop the production of the hormone estrogen. This leads to increased removal of bone which decreases bone strength and can lead to two things – Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia. Osteoporosis is diagnosed when bone health declines

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Jacket potato toppings James Martin
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Ali on the BBC

Standing in for the usual BBC Radio Leicester presenter last week was Jo Bostock. She spoke to Ali about all thinsg food (as well as movies) and even got into a conversation about the merits of jacket poatatoes! Why you may ask? It came up following the announcemnt of celebrity chef James Martin taking over the Spud U Like franchise of fast food stores. How high does the humble baked potato feature on your weekly meal plans? Listen here - ali appears about 40 mins into the programme

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cacao ceremonies in Somerset
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How to create a Hunter Full Moon Ceremony this October 2021

This October I’m holding my Full Moon Cacao Ceremony and Meditation a day early, on Tuesday 19th , as I have managed to bag myself some long awaited tickets to see the west end show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. I’ve literally been on the mailing list for tickets for years and post our last UK lockdown when the theatres announced they could open again, and tickets were available, I was right there It does mean I’ll be holding my cacao ceremony and meditation at the gorgeous Mill Birth and Wellbeing Centre in Duddington a day early, but that doesn’t mean it will be any less special. So

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