Group consultations project
Today I am incredibly proud to say that my work has been published in the Lifestyle Medicine Journal 📔 In this project, I designed and ran a course for a group of patients...
Today I am incredibly proud to say that my work has been published in the Lifestyle Medicine Journal 📔 In this project, I designed and ran a course for a group of patients...
Go for a run (or get active anyway you like!) I was sooooooo pleased to see that the ice & snow had melted and it was safe enough to go out for a run...
🌱Spending time in nature has been shown to be an effective way to improve feelings of wellbeing. There is evidence that spending time in nature increases serotonin levels - which is commonly referred...
How can we reduce the risk of diabetes? The top five protective factors for preventing development of diabetes are:1. Maintaining a healthy weight (BMI <25)2. Diet high in fibre and “good” polyunsaturated fats,...
🍴Increased consumption of fried 🍟🥓🍔sugary 🧁🍿& processed🥪🍕 foods is associated with increased risk of both anxiety and depression. ✅These large observational studies don’t give us reasons why eating more processed food or fast...
👩⚕️When I was training, diabetes was seen as a progressive condition, getting steadily worse over time, needing increasing medication, at first tablets, then leading on to injectables and then insulin. After diagnosis...
Doctors who exercise are more likely to advise about exercise. Non-smoker physicians are more likely to provide smoking cessation counselling. Physician’s own diet correlates with the dietary advice they give: physicians with higher fruit...
Life changes reduce risk of heart disease The statistics are impressive: For making the following changes, the percentage risk reduction of heart disease is: ✅Reduce total cholesterol by 50% = 50% risk reduction for IHD...