Low GI foods helps stabilise your blood glucose levels, reducing big spikes and glucose followed by big drops once insulin kicks in. This helps keep your energy levels keep even over the day and helps reduce insulin resistance and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Apart from the actual foods, how we prepare food with carbohydrate in…
Thank you for your patience while we all lived on-line for the worst of the pandemic. As Covid-19 restrictions are easing I will be trialing returning to clinic for face-to-face consulting as of Friday 19th June. I can’t wait!! The shared clinic space has been operating (in a modified way) for the whole time, and have…
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh tested whether hugs act as a form of social support, protecting stressed people from getting sick. Turns out they do! In the study of 404 healthy adults perceived support was assessed by a questionnaire, and the frequency of interpersonal conflicts and receiving hugs was assessed from…