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Hope-For-Health

Holistic Care, Food + Nutrition Advice, Lifestyle Practice, Education and Coaching

I aim to educate people to live better by improving their diet and lifestyle, in order to decrease reliance on medicines and improve internal health and well-being.

I do this by working with, not against, both your body and our shared external environments.

• Do you want to eat better?

• Do you want to feel better?

• Do you want to sleep better?

• Do you want to lose weight?

Let me help you get there in a healthy way.

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Hope for Health is my lifestyle and nutritional health consultancy. I provide 1:1 individual care for you to improve your health, at your speed, within your budget. I am also building a set of resources that my clients have access to through this website, which will complement the work we do individually.

Whilst the bulk of my work is 1:1 (click here to book a 1:1 session) I am happy to work with couples or even consider the needs of the whole family. If you would like to discuss these options please contact me here or ring me on my mobile. If it is cooking for your family as much as the dietary knowledge you want help with I can come to your house to work with you. (click here to book a personalised cookery course based on the health needs and budget of you and your family). I have special rates for those who may be struggling financially / on benefits. Click here for my benefits package or contact me as above.

The business, Hope for Health, is a culmination of thoughts, ideas, passions and specific targeted learning from my 15 years+ working in General Practice, alongside all the life experience I have obtained from being both a working mum, and someone who personally struggles with various inflammatory related health issues.

I have looked into the current research and advice in diet and nutrition, lifestyle medicine, holistic care and metabolic health. I have tried a lot of things for myself and found some things that work and other things that don't. I have observed the real world experiences of many patients both in the NHS and outside it. This learning and these experiences give me a unique insight into what works (and doesn't) for different individuals and enables me to tailor my input to you in a way that addresses your health needs within the framework of your life circumstances.

I am undertaking constant updating and am hoping to obtain a further qualification from the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (BSLM) over the next couple of years.

I am a member of the British Association for Holistic Medicine and Healthcare (BHMA) and an Ambassador for both the Real Food Campaign (RFC) and the Public Health Collaboration (PHCUK). I take the health of both people and the planet seriously and understand how they effect each other. I strive to keep both in mind with my advice.

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Where I can help and guide you...

Weight Loss

26% of the UK adult population are classified as obese by the NHS, so if you are one of them you are not alone. You may have tried many diets, but not yet found the thing that sustains your weight loss. Often this is due to a combination of factors including your gut microbiome, your underlying metabolic rate and other health and illness issues. We can work together to try to understand you and your body's needs within a holistic setting, taking into account wider social factors that are also important to you.

Helping with Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is defined as having 3 or more of the 5 criteria below. Having it increases your risks of strokes, heart atacks, cancer and many other long term health issues.

Working together we can help you to understand why these things may have occurred and to change your diet and lifestyle to improve and even reverse them.:

Increased waste circumference
Type 2 diabetes diagnosed or at risk of
Reduced HDL ("good fats")
Increased triglycerides
High blood pressure

Considering how Food effects Mood

Many people do not realise how much what we eat effects how we feel. From simple sugar highs and lows to more complex issues involving gut health and micronutrients we can work to stabilise and improve your mood through your food choices at any stage of your life. Particualr crunch points for many people seem to be those "change times" - puberty, menopause, retirement, job change, relationship change etc. Looking at your diet within the holistic care model can be really effective in improving you mood and energy levels.

Improving Gut Health

It turns out that interest in the gut in medicine may not be new - Hippocrates is quoted as having said "all disease starts in the gut" and, whilst our understanding of this has changed, it seems he was heading in the right direction over 2000 year ago. Unfortunately our ultra-processed foods and our frequent "eating on the run" have caused many people to have unhealthy gut microbiomes and we are realising more and more the significant effects of this on multiple systems of the body. Luckily improving your gut microbiome can be very simple with some small habit changes.

Food and Cooking Skills

Over the years that I have been interested in food and nutrition it has become more and more clear to me that many people would love to eat more healthily and cook more from scratch, but don't know where to start. I have developed a way of thinking about food that makes this easy and I would love to share it with you. My approach looks firstly at helping you undrstand cooking methods and flavour combinations, and from this you can quickly and eaisly build nutritious meals that suit your tastes and your budget.

To make this as easy as possible for you to be able to get started quickly on your own, I will come to your house and work with you using your own equipment and cooking facilities. No kitchen is too small and much can be achieved with little in the way of pans, gadgets etc.

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