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Out Of The Desert – a story of Arthritis recovery

This piece was written by a client of mine who has seen her health transformed from a hopeless place to one of empowerment. It is particularly interesting to see how pivotal diet has been in her recovery: I began having lower back pain 10 years ago. 2 years after the first symptoms it became difficult […]

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Ulcerative Colitis – a mother’s experience

these days doctors are often taught that anecdote is not important in medicine – which is nonsense. If certain approaches clearly work, then they should be valued. Here is a first hand account of the experience of a mother who had a child suffering from Ulcerative Colitis; hopefully if you find yourself in a similar situation […]

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Ulcerative Colitis – many doctors say that diet doesn’t matter!?

For years now I have been treating Ulcerative Colitis with great success. Every client with this condition that I have seen that has followed my advice has improved, giving them the possibility of reducing and ultimately stopping their drug treatment, and being long-term symptom free. Some of these clients were so severely ill that they […]

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Stay healthy in relentless rain

And so the rain keeps falling… Britain has long been known for its cold and damp climate, but it looks like climate change is taking us to the next level – we’ve had the wettest January since 1910, and there’s more on the way. In the clinic it’s obvious that many of my clients are […]

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In Praise of Fennel

In my book I define what the traditional British diet should look like, a diet based on the flavour and health properties of foods, rather than ingredients that generate compulsion, like sugar, that swamp modern food products. Such a health-based diet has distinctive character, predominant flavours, and these flavours have smells. An example – the […]

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Welcome to the Be Your Own Nutritionist blog

My intention is that the blog will act as an extension of the book’s content, building on and adding detail to its messages – the appalling impact of modern diets, limitations and corruptions of food and health science, the value of traditional diets including recipes and commentaries and, my favourite bit – praise for medicinal […]

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