A food diary is an important and potentially very useful tool to help you become more conscious of what you are eating, get to know your body and its responses, and spot patterns that can be very revealing for your health. Here is all you need to know to get started: what to include, how to track, and how to analyse it all.

When you are trying to "eat for health" and avoid unnecessary toxins and overall unwanted 'nasties' in your diet, it's good to know which foods have higher/lower pesticide residues. The EWG’s lists for 2021 have arrived. What do they tell us and how should we interpret them?

Thanks to a new study, we can now add gut health benefits to avocado’s health-promoting powers. Turns out, regularly eating avo helps keep your gut happy in more ways than one.

Tips for eating for IBD, including the 3 key foods to remove from your diet, and the 3 to start eating more of now!

Keeping hydrated is important for everyone, but especially so during these hot summer months, and for anyone who is losing fluids, whether due to a stomach bug, or as a result of a health condition like IBD. But there’s more to hydration than just drinking lots of water.

It’s easy to get lost in the weeds of which foods are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’, but every now and then it’s important to remind ourselves of some simple universal basics about food and eating, and how it’s not that complicated after all.

Navigating the many different dietary protocols and the mountains of contradictory dietary information out there can be exhausting! How do you know which is right? By finding what works best for you as an individual, even if that doesn’t fall neatly in line with a dietary ‘label’.

A look at the question of fat, saturated fat in particular, and how it has been unfairly painted as ‘the bad guy’ for so long. Nina Teicholz’s “The Big Fat Surprise” walks you through the history of nutritional science, the focus being on the individuals and the ultimately inadequate studies behind the development and promotion of the 'diet-heart hypothesis'.

There are articles upon articles talking about the practically endless health benefits of coconut oil, from being the best fat to use for cooking, to oil-pulling for whiter teeth. However, occasionally, the odd article damning the practice of cooking with coconut oil as very unhealthy makes the rounds, thus causing inevitable confusion. 

When you are searching for natural supplementation to help with IBD, you will inevitably come across turmeric, and for good reason. While it appears to be beneficial for overall health purposes, its key properties are especially useful for inflammatory conditions like IBD.