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 Many of us often go from one diet to the next in search of finding the diet which will meet our objectives.
Unfortunately, in many cases these expectations are short-lived. Quick fixes often fizzle out leaving our spirits lower than before the diet started.
If you are considering adopting a healthy balanced diet or are required to eliminate specific foods from your diet to improve your health, you do not have to tackle this alone.
To alleviate any pressures which may arise from making such changes to your diet, Nutrition 4 Healthy Living can work with you to assist you through this process and allow you to implement the necessary changes and maintain them with greater ease.
Nutrition 4 Healthy Living can assess your existing diet through dietary analysis
to determine any nutritional imbalances and let you see where and when your energy intake is coming from.
You will be provided with a personal plan outlining specific dietary sources to help you overcome any nutritional imbalances, taking into consideration your likes and dislikes and lifestyle.
Advice for adopting a healthy balanced diet and knowledge for understanding labels will be provided and if required meal suggestions can be offered. Support, guidance and encouragement will help you to make the initial steps towards maintaining your new eating habits to achieve your goal.
To make an appointment or to obtain further details including costs please contact me.
 Your health and your partner’s health, weight and nutritional status prior to conception are very important.
They will influence your fertility, the outcome of the infant you will conceive and its long term health, as well as your own health in later life. Preconception is a time for preparing for the forthcoming changes; emotionally, physically and mentally.
Nutrient requirements from conception to birth and during lactation are higher than any other time. The infant’s blood cells, skin, bones, muscles, organs, brain and other tissues are produced from maternal stores and the foods you consume.
The more nutritious your diet is the more beneficial it will be for supporting the growth and development of your infant.
A nutritious healthy balanced diet will provide your infant with the best possible start in life. Vitamins and minerals play crucial roles in the development of new life. New cells are laid down at a tremendous rate as the fetus grows and develops.
The recommended levels of nutrition will support this growth and help you to maintain a healthy body weight. This will also help to ensure your baby arrives in good health and within a healthy weight range.
Nutrition 4 Healthy Living can analyse your diet to establish if your diet is providing you with the recommended nutrition to support new life.
You would be advised of any nutritional imbalances revealed in the analysis and provided with a personal plan of suggested dietary sources to help overcome any deficiencies, low or high intakes of any micronutrients or macronutrients.
Dietary advice can also be provided to help ensure the absorption of the nutrients is maximised.
To make an appointment or to obtain further details
including costs please contact me.
 Our energy levels, mood, condition of our hair, appearance of our skin, ability to concentrate and retain information, frequent infections from a weakened immune system, our sleeping pattern and how our digestive system functions can indicate how our body is coping with our diet. Low intakes or deficiencies in specific vitamins and minerals can impact on these bodily functions.
These general symptoms can impact on our daily lives and make the day harder to deal with. There may be no obvious reason why it is occurring and being restricted from making the most out of each day is no fun. All too often we just learn to live with it, but we shouldn’t. These symptoms may seem small now but are an indicator that something is out of synch in the body and left unchecked could lead to a greater complication.
Having been in this position myself, just knowing why you are experiencing the symptoms and knowing which foods may be aggravating the situation can be a relief in itself. Equipped with this knowledge you’ll have the ability to make an informed choice of whether to avoid or reduce the food or foods to help improve the situation. You don’t have to live with it anymore.
Through dietary analysis, deficient or low levels of nutrients in the diet can be revealed and improved upon by incorporating specific foods into the diet and in turn help to alleviate the symptom. This can be extremely satisfying and provide you with the opportunity to achieve more in your daily life.
To make an appointment or to obtain further details including costs please contact me.
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Whichever age category you fall into Nutrition 4 Healthy Living can analyse your diet to establish if you are providing your body with the recommended nutrition required for your age. Support and guidance will be provided to help you overcome any nutritional imbalances revealed in the analysis, which may be impacted on your health, and assist you in working towards a healthy, balanced diet.
Eating healthily with plenty of antioxidants will help reduce the harmful effects caused by free radicals and help to delay the ageing process. Combining a healthy lifestyle, regular physical activity, and a healthy, balanced diet will help you to maintain healthy arteries, organs, digestive system, eyes, bone density, brain activity and reduce your risk to a wide variety of dietary and age-related conditions.
See how eating healthily can benefit your age group...
Under 20s, 20s-30s, 40s-50s, Over 60s
 During Childhood and Adolescence
Whether you are at school, studying at college, or starting out on your career path, eating healthily will not only provide you with the energy to learn new subjects, be creative, participate in sporting activities, spend time with friends, but also ensure that your body receives the nutrients required to support your physical, cognitive and social development. Your diet is therefore very important at this time of your life because it will help lay down the foundations for a long and healthy life.
Eating healthily is not just about consuming your ‘5 a day’ or more and not being able to have any treats. It is about balancing your intake of the food groups – proteins (meat, fish, eggs, beans, lentils, nuts), starchy fibrous foods (bread, rice, pasta, breakfast cereals, potatoes), fruit and vegetables, dairy produce (milk, cheese, yoghurt), eating a wide variety of foods to ensure your body receives the nutrients it requires for your growth and development, and keeping the sugary drinks, sweets, biscuits, cakes and foods high in salt and saturated fat to a minimum.
As you age your taste buds will change, so if you don’t like the taste of a food now, just try it again, you never know you may find you love it one day. I would never have eaten avocados or natural probiotic yoghurt in my childhood, but they are two of my favourite foods now. Any nutritional imbalances could impact on your health, if not now, perhaps later in life. Ensuring you eat a healthy, balanced diet, combined with physical activity to balance your energy intake and adopt a healthy lifestyle, you should be able to reap the benefits and enjoy good health as you progress through life.
Just remember the more colourful your plate, the more nutritious your meal and the healthier it will be for you. Next time you have a meal see how many different colours are on your plate and how your plate compares with your friend’s.
 During your
20s-30s
This can be a very busy and stressful time as you strive to fit everything into your day; from work to socialising, household chores, caring for a family member or bringing up a family and just existing. So fitting in a healthy diet and lifestyle often falls low on the list of priorities.
Incorporating a few key ingredients into your diet at regular times throughout the day, can provide you with some vital nutrients to give you energy, make you feel more alert, reduce your resistance to infections and prevent the blood sugar highs and lows that many of us experience. Adequate dietary calcium, vitamin D and magnesium will help reduce the risk of osteoporosis in later life.
Imbalances in the diet can often affect our mood and lead to depression, irritability, low self-esteem, lack of motivation, poor concentration, digestive problems and irregular sleeping patterns. Therefore adopting a healthy, balanced diet will ensure that your body receives all the vitamins, minerals and trace elements required to prevent or alleviate these symptoms, support new life, and provide you with the opportunity of a long and healthy life.
 During your
40s-50s
Life during the 40’s-50’s can vary considerably; juggling work, household chores, family life and perhaps having to prepare different meals at different times to fit around everyone’s daily activities. This can be a time when you are predisposed to rising cholesterol levels, elevated blood pressure, anxiety and tension, muscular aches and pains, perhaps having to deal with the symptoms of the menopause and feeling run down with little time for ‘you’.
Allowing yourself some ‘me time’ will allow you to put some aspects of your life into perspective. We all know that health is very important and that eating healthily will improve how we look and feel, but knowing where to start can often hold us back. By making the decision not to continue as you have been and acquiring the knowledge to let you make gradual changes to your or your families eating habits, you will already be half way there.
Personal support and guidance will help you to incorporate the recommended nutrition into your diet and give you the opportunity of slowing your ageing process by having more energy, feeling less tense, more alert, balancing your blood sugar levels, reducing your risk of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, infections and many other dietary related conditions.
 60's and over
You may be taking life at a slower pace, working towards your retirement, spending more time with your grandchildren, or perhaps you have already retired and find that you are busier than when you were working, as you catch up on all those tasks or interests you never had time for before.
Nutrition at this time of your life is very important. Over time oxidative damage caused by free radicals impacts on the body and assists in the ageing process and degenerative disorders. By keeping your body and mind active, consuming a healthy, balanced diet and providing your body with the recommended nutrition for your age, you will be able to help reduce these effects and the risk of conditions such as atherosclerosis, cataracts, cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, and allow you to get the most out of your retirement years.
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