NATURAL NEWS FOR WOMEN

At the clinic we get thousands of emails with requests for information and advice and I thought this would be a good way to keep you up to date with what is happening in the world of nutrition. The ‘Natural News for Women’ Health Digest is for you, to send in your questions, tell me what you want help with, what articles you found most useful and what has worked for you. Your feedback is valuable as it helps other women who may have a similar health concern to know that they are not alone and to hear that there are answers to their problems. Each Issue will have a main feature, questions and answers, a case study showing the power of nutrition, a Monthly Meal Idea, In The News, Quick Tips and much more. Nutrition is always the foundation of good health because your food not only gives you energy but provides the vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids etc to manufacture your hormones, blood and bones and to make sure that your body is working efficiently.

But as women our bodies' requirements change throughout our lives - much more so than men. We worry about our weight more, we have monthly cycles, a lot of us want to have children at some stage and all of us will go through the menopause sooner or later. Our bodies must adapt themselves differently at each stage and to do so effectively they need a different combination of nutrients. Our bodies should adjust themselves and our appetites naturally, and indeed they would, if our lives were more in touch with nature’s rhythms.

But unfortunately we are very out of touch - we eat bananas in winter, our homes are heated all year round, we don't wake at sunrise and sleep at sunset and so on. And even more importantly now our food doesn't even contain the same levels of nutrients that it used to. Because of intensive farming methods the nutrients have been leeched out of the soil that our food grows in.