Welcome to Healthy Reads. This is where I share what I’ve learned in years of coaching about eating well and feeling better: nutrition, stress and burnout, sleep, hormones and menopause, healthy habits and simple ways to relax. Every article is based on science and written for real life, so you get clear steps you can start using today. No fads, no guilt and no extremes. Pick a topic below, or simply start reading.
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Vitamins and minerals: why your needs are as unique as you are
Your need for vitamins and minerals is not the same as your neighbour’s, and it is not the same in January as in July. Here is how to feed your own body well, with food first.
What are the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids for the brain?
Your brain is largely made of fat, and omega-3s are among the fats it values most. Here is what they do, where to find them in everyday food, and what to make of the big promises.
What Is Bio-individuality? Why There’s No One Right Way to Eat
Every person is unique, so every person needs something a little different from their food. Here’s what bio-individuality means, the few basics that suit everyone, and where to begin.
Ease Allergy Symptoms Naturally
What makes spring so beautiful for many of us brings sneezing and itchy eyes for others. Here are the foods and the simple home habits that can make pollen season more comfortable, alongside the advice of your doctor or pharmacist.
Nurture yourself this spring with primary foods
Spring is not the moment to be hard on yourself. Look at nature, do as she does, and nourish yourself with these simple primary foods, on and off the plate.
Breathe: A Gentle Introduction to Coming Back to Your Breath
Most of us spend the day breathing high and short without noticing. Here’s a gentle introduction to remembering your breath, with one simple practice and a little sticky-note trick.
Let’s Talk About Cravings: Where They Come From and What They’re Telling You
Cravings for crisps, cheese or chocolate usually come from stress, comfort, hunger, tiredness or habit. Here’s how to find out where yours come from, and what helps.
Sustaining your body with healthy food: a gentle spring clean for your plate
After a long stretch indoors, close to the kitchen and to our emotions, the body asks for something lighter. Here is a gentle way to clean up your plate in spring and feel more like yourself again.
The Health Benefits of Hot Water
Drinking plain hot water is a remedy we often neglect because it is so simple. Here is where the habit comes from, what it does for you and how to start tomorrow morning.
Tips to Help You Snack Healthier While Working
If the biscuit tin or the vending machine calls you every afternoon, a little preparation changes everything. Here are six simple ways to snack well while you work.
The Waste-Free Kitchen: How to Reduce Food Waste and Start Sustainable Habits Right Away
You don’t need to change everything at once. Start in the kitchen, with one habit at a time, and you’ll waste less food, less plastic and less money, while eating better too.
Give Yourself Permission
You have spent a lifetime adapting to what others expect. Now give yourself permission to be more than you have dared so far: to say a clear yes, a clear no, and to choose your life deliberately.
Let’s talk about sleep: simple habits for better nights
Good sleep starts long before bedtime. Here’s how your day, your meals, your stress and your evenings shape your nights, and what I suggest people try first.
Let’s Talk About Diets: Why I Don’t Believe in Them
I hate hearing about diets. Here’s why they so rarely work, what they do to your body and mind, and what I suggest instead.
Why You Need More Food, Not Less (Especially After 50)
When we eat very little, the body takes what it needs from elsewhere, and muscle is one of the first places. Here’s why eating enough is an act of care.
How to Achieve Your Health Goals, Any Time of Year
You don’t need a new year or a Monday to change something for your health. You need a clear reason, a small first step and a little patience. Here is how to begin.
11 tips for better mental health
Looking after your mental health is mostly made of small, ordinary things done regularly. Here are eleven of them, and a gentle way to begin.
Why I love overnight oats, and my autumn pear and walnut version
I make overnight oats while dinner is cooking, so breakfast is ready before I go to bed. Here’s my simple base and my favourite autumn version.
