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How 40 Years of Food Changed Childhood and Why Our Children Deserve Better
Childhood is a once-in-a-lifetime window for growth, yet by the age of seven, children in the UK get around 60% of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods, raising important questions about the...
7 days ago8 min read


Ten Questions to Ask Yourself When Preparing a Meal
Food choices occur on a daily basis, but how often do you consider your physiology and nutrition in your daily food choices? Perhaps each time you think about food, or perhaps never. Either way, here...
Jul 38 min read


The Midlife Guide to Gut Health and a Four-Pillar Approach to Building a Healthier Microbiome
Gut health has become one of the most talked-about areas in nutrition, and for good reason. We now know the gut is far more than a digestive tract. It is home to a complex ecosystem of microorganisms...
Jun 297 min read


7 Habits Metabolically Healthy People Do Without Thinking
Most healthy people never sat down and wrote out a metabolic health plan. They just picked up habits from their families or others along the way, and those habits stuck. Maybe they forgot to tell...
Jun 167 min read


How to Stop Starting Over and the Missing Piece in Sustainable Health
If you've ever restarted a health plan more times than you can count, you're not broken, you've just been handed the wrong framework. In this article, metabolic health coach René Caruso breaks down why the...
Jun 105 min read


What Happens After GLP-1? The Missing Conversation About Life Beyond Appetite Suppression
GLP-1 receptor agonists have changed the landscape of weight management. For many individuals, these medications offer something they may not have experienced in years: relief. The constant mental...
Jun 74 min read


How Blood Sugar Shapes Mood, Focus and Emotional Regulation
Many people assume their mood swings, irritability, or difficulty concentrating are simply personality traits or stress responses. Often, these experiences have a quieter, physiological root: unstable blood sugar.
Jun 53 min read


How My Pursuit of Wellness Led to Food Obsession and What Finally Set Me Free
I never expected that my pursuit of health would eventually become one of the biggest sources of stress in my life. Like many people, my journey began with good intentions. I learned how food affects...
Jun 25 min read


How to Positively Influence Through Food
One of the infinite benefits of food is that it influences us to feel better, whether that feeling is satiated, nourished, or simply an uplifted mood. The crucial element is that we want this feel...
Jun 26 min read


Five Simple Habits to Boost Your Energy After 50
Do you wake up tired before the day has even started? You pour your first coffee just to feel human, and by mid-afternoon, you are running on empty. Sound familiar? I hear this from so many women and men over...
Jun 27 min read


Bottles of Hope and the Premise Behind the Kids' Supplement Industry That Doesn't Survive a Trial
It is 7 pm. Dinner has been refused for the third night in a row. Your child has eaten approximately one cracker and the parsley off your plate. You scroll your phone, half watching them, half searching for...
May 286 min read


Still On Omeprazole After Years? The Heartburn Myth That’s Keeping You Stuck
Millions of people take a small tablet every morning, often for years, sometimes for decades, on the understanding that their stomach makes too much acid, and that this acid is the source of all their...
May 2610 min read


Macros vs. Calories – Why What You Eat Matters More Than Just the Number
For years, nutrition advice has been simplified into one message: eat fewer calories. While that idea is rooted in truth, it often leaves people frustrated when they do everything “right” and still...
May 266 min read


Beyond Picky Eating and Understanding ARFID in Children
Your child refuses dinner again. They push the plate away, cry, and gag at the smell of something new. You try reasoning, bribing, and ignoring it. Nothing works. For some children, this is not defiance...
May 217 min read


Navigating Parkinson’s Disease with Dietary Restrictions and Nutritional Management
Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor and nonmotor symptoms resulting from the loss of dopamine-producing neurons. While there is no cure, comprehensive...
May 218 min read


18 Years of Plastic Lunch and What Ultra-Processed Childhood Actually Costs
You are at the park. The afternoon is warm. Your child sits on the grass with an ice cream and is not eating it fast enough. You wait for the drip down the wrist, the sticky cuff, the small disaster...
May 177 min read


An Open Letter to Every Restaurant in the World About Bringing Back Strawberry Preserves
Some battles are small enough to ignore, until suddenly they are not, and this one happens to involve breakfast dignity and the quiet disappearance of strawberry preserves. In a world of jam, jelly, and...
May 144 min read


How Diet and Nutrition Shape ADHD and Autism
Nutrition and diet play a fundamental role in supporting symptoms of ADHD and autism, particularly when they form part of a comprehensive approach. When a child or adult struggles with focus, mood, sleep...
May 126 min read


Understanding Our Three Deadly Food Sins and the Truth About Fat, Sugar, and Synthetic Foods
In the modern battle against obesity and chronic disease, it’s worth asking an uncomfortable question: have we gotten it all completely wrong? Across the globe, rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease...
May 116 min read


Why Your Energy Depends on Digestion, the Ayurvedic Key to Sustainable Vitality
Health is not created by what you do occasionally. It is created by what your body is able to process every day. In my clinical Ayurvedic practice, one of the most common concerns I hear is: “I’m tired...
May 84 min read


Why Butter Should Be Your Go-To Fat in a World Full of Plant Oils
Do you remember the time when we only ate olive oil and balsamic vinegar as a dip with our courtesy bread at an Italian restaurant? The little white dish was sat in front of us, and we all dipped our slices.
May 73 min read


The Nutrition Statements Not to Ignore, and the Nutrition Claims to Ignore
Diet is an umbrella term for the items that habitually appear on your plate and routinely feature in what you eat. But when a diet-related ‘fad’ comes along with a connected perception that it is ‘good’ or ‘bad’...
May 67 min read


When Environment Speaks Louder Than Genes and Rethinking the North-South IBD Gradient
Why does inflammatory bowel disease vary by region, and what does that reveal about our environment? This article uncovers how lifestyle, diet, and exposure shape disease risk, offering a powerful new perspective ...
May 45 min read


Why Macro & Micronutrients Matter More Than Calories for Body Composition and Wellbeing
Let me guess. At some point in your life, you've stood in a supermarket aisle, squinting at the back of a cereal box, trying to work out whether 347 calories is good, bad, or entirely irrelevant, and...
Apr 308 min read
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