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DAY 14 – Is the Paleo Diet healthy?!

Posted by fightthefads on December 14, 2016December 14, 2016

DAY 14 – Is the Paleo Diet healthy?!

Should we all be trying to eat like a caveman?

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If you missed our story posts last week on IBS Awareness Month fear not - we have saved it for you on our profile. You can find the full article on our website (link in bio). . 👉If you have IBS, know that you are not alone! Irritable Bowel Syndrome affects around 12 million across the UK alone. . IBS is a combination of recurrent symptoms that can be very debilitating. Ongoing IBS symptoms should not be ignored. It is important to rule out other conditions, such as coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Avoid making any changes to your diet until you have a diagnosis as this may affect the results of your blood tests; if you have cut out gluten, the blood test won’t be able to detect if you have coeliac disease. . If you are worried you may have IBS, speak to your GP and ask to be referred to a dietitian. . Following on in the gut theme - follow our story today as Yakult GB 🇬🇧 has sent us to their International Symposium in beautiful Ghent, Belgium and we’ll be posting lots on microbiome and gut health! . 🤔QUESTION: Have you heard of any other dietary advice for IBS? Comment below 👇 #health #guthealth #gut #happytummy #ibs #fodmap #nutrition #diet

🌵 Drink water, get sunshine, you are essentially a cactus with a better appetite #nutritionhydrationweek #nutrition

We’ve been quiet the past few weeks working on some exciting projects that we will be able to share hopefully with you soon. . This week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week . BEAT are doing a campaign, #WhyWait to raise awareness (You can find some of the infographics they have made by swiping right). A recent survey found that more than one in three adults (34%) in the UK could not name any signs or symptoms of eating disorders. . Let’s change that! The sooner someone gets the treatment they need, the more likely they are to make a full and fast recovery! . We teamed up with @goodnessguru to #BAKEFORBEAT. Sadly because of the snow we were not able to deliver this cake 🎂 but there will be lots of cake tomorrow at The Pear Tree Cafe in Battersea Park from 10am until closing. All the money raised will go to Beat for all the work they do in both pioneering research into Eating Disorders and supporting sufferers and their families.

Can you Vape your vitamins? You may have seen the latest e-cig trend is vitamin enhanced vapour. These electronic cigarettes are nicotine free and deliver water vapour mixed with vitamins. Dubious? You should be. Inhalation isn’t accepted as an efficient way to absorb vitamins. It is often used for drugs (eg. for asthma) that need absorption of small particles and often target the lungs directly. Also certain vitamins change structure when exposed to heat and we don’t know how much of the vitamins is actually absorbed. In clinical practice, vitamins are only administered via IV or taken as tablets and both of these methods are highly efficient at delivering vitamins into the bloodstream! Why fix something that isn’t broken. . Perhaps our medic friends could provide some insight in the comments but we imagine that any amount of vitamin actually reaching the blood would be very small? . Another question is whether vaping is safe at all. The WHO says more research is needed to determine the full health effects of vaping. In summary, the best way to up your vitamin and mineral intake is through eating a variety of nutritious foods such as fruit, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds – these also have the added effect of increasing your fibre intake which is important in keeping your gut happy! 🌈We currently take the recommended dose of Vitamin D (10ug) daily and aim to eat the rainbow everyday by adding different coloured fruits and vegetables to our diet. . 📸 @mjasik Check his work out, absolutely amazing! #vape #vitamins #health #fiction

How did you sleep? Do you feel rested? We live in the era of 24/7 but our bodies need rest so we can be at our best!. The general consensus is that adults require around 7-9 hours of sleep but teenagers can need more than this and of course it varies from person to person. The amount of sleep we have impacts on our quality of life and can affect the way we feel, look and perform. . NEW POST on our website. We spoke to Haya Al Khabib lead researcher of a recently published study investigating the effect of sleep on our diet and weight. . Sleep is only one part of the puzzle. Sleep is closely related to eating habits, control of stress levels and maintenance of physical activity levels. Most of us are aware of the simple strategies to getting a better sleep; Turning off our phones 1-1.5 hours before going to bed, dimming the lights and creating a calm and relaxing environment. We will spend one-third of our lives sleeping to ensure we are productive and energetic over the remaining two thirds, so what gets on our way and makes so many of us have poor sleep? Let’s change this! Our 3 tips for getting a better sleep 🌳 We have been using the app Forest. We set our alarm and then ‘plant’ a tree when we start our evening routine to avoid using our phones before going to bed. 📚 However tempting Netflix can be, we try and relax in bed with a good book. We are currently reading Letters to my Fanny by @cherryhealey and Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Goes Bad by @r_mcgregor 🕯Dim the lights and light some candles. Despite being almost halfway through January we are still feeling Christmas Yankee candles! Crackling Fire and Festive Cocktail! 👉What are your top tips for getting a better sleep? . #sleep #nutrition #diet #weight #health #sugar #research #fact #factnotfiction #sleepingcat #penguin #food #sleeping

✨Happy New Year to all! ✨ . 🎄We hope you had a wonderful evening with family and loved ones. Not everyone has had an easy time this festive season. Our friends, Helen and Rosie @rooted_project have started a great fundraiser in support of @helprefugeesuk, HIIT to Help —> Check @rooted_project and get involved. . 🍄Top tips for this January: . 1. Don’t believe everything you read when it comes to nutrition 2. Diets don’t work long term, focus on food habits instead! 3. Focus on yourself and remember that education is power . We are starting a busy clinical placement on Monday and we will be in the look out for nonsense that need debunking. 📌Comment and let us know what you would like to see from us next . . 📸 credit: @greekgateway #nutrition #newyear #diet #dietitian #2018 #health #science #debunking #knowledge #education #fads

Throwback to the day we spend cooking at @waitrose Cookery School! . This one was the easiest overnight breakfast - super speedy to make and safe to travel to work with you in these beautiful jars! Follow this link for the recipe —> http://bit.ly/2ACyxfQ . We hope you are all in the festive mood and getting ready to spend quality time with family and friends! 🎉 . 📸 credit: @rhitrition 👊

☝🏻Chickpea and sweet potato curry made by our fair hands yesterday at @waitrose cookery school with @alpro . This bowl has 20g of fibre ( we’re recommended 30g/day) and this is before you add the 🍚 +🍞 . We also made Bircher Museli with 🍏 and pomegranate which we demolished in the library this morning 📚 . It was a day focused around the health benefits of fibre with a fantastic talk as always from @theguthealthdoctor on the benefits of #plantbased eating and emerging new research potentially linking our gut bacteria💩 to our mental health 🧠- the evidence isn’t conclusive but extremely exciting! . Great to catch up with @rhitrition @sr_nutrition @anitabean1 and the team from nutralicious and meet @zoewilliams @lucy_and_lentils @cbaynham @sophieshealthykitchen . 📸 credit @rhitrition 🙌 #alpro #waitrose #fibre #nutrition #dietetics #health #food #science #peas #rice #indian #letstalkfibre #waitrosecookeryschool

Thank you for a wonderful evening @thegutstuff!! Hosted by @themactwins • Attending the launch of their new gut health supper club meant that our tummies came away very satisfied! • From kombucha to kimchi- we tried it all! But most importantly, events like this are a great way to get a whole bunch of people from all different backgrounds together to discuss an important topic in health • We sat with bowel surgeons, wine makers, researchers, dietitians and food app co-founders- all added their own interesting perspectives to the conversation! • As @dr.jen.robinson highlighted in her post earlier, gut health is the third most popular health topic at the moment, and getting people to talk about their 💩 (particularly changes in 💩habits) is a good thing! • We are lucky to have some great researchers such as @theguthealthdoctor at KCL who are leading some exciting research into the effects of dietary interventions on our gut health • Let us know what you feed your tummies to keep your guts healthy below!

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