Nutritionist speaks out on Health

Health expert and London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston of Harley Street has been very busy and in the news of late, quoted in a number of newspapers

Press and Journal
Northern Echo
Irish Examiner
Also online on SoFeminine talking about inflamation information

Last weekend Yvonne was speaking at London Vegfest about how to raise your children heathily on a vegetarian / vegan diet.

Although eating a plant based diet helps you avoid greater risks associated with a standard diet there are optimisation issues you need to be aware of as with any diet. Getting the balance right with high sugar foods and adequate essential fats intake are just as important to keep an eye on as with a meat based diet.

  London Vegfest

Yvonne Bishop-Weston Nutritionist London

 

25% UK toddlers lacking Vitamin D

A quarter of UK toddlers are lacking Vitamin D - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent

I think you'll find we told you so, many times, but just in case we'll tell you again.

Vitamin D  is one of the most important vitamins, especially for your immune system and for building and maintaining bone health.

Your body makes vitamin D from sunshine - If there ain't no sunshine, then she's gone, there ain't no vitamin D when she goes away.

If you spend your time playing nintendo or computer games instead of running about outside, riding in a car instead of on a bike, taking the tube / bus instead of walking through the park, thinking you look cool always wearing dark glasses or if you have dark skin to genetically protect you from a hot equatorial sun and you live in northern Europe or America then you are going to need a vitamin D supplement. A vitamin D defieciency leaves you with a greater risk of a number of different diseases not just bone problems and rickets.

Vitamin D Supplement - Special Offer - Vitashine

The Vegetarian Society - Awards 2010 Winners

The Vegetarian Society - Awards 2010

Leading London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston takes time out from setting up a new clinic in the New Forest to present an award in London to the Winner of Vegetarian Society 2010 awards - Best Breakfast Product category.

Yvonne said "I'm delighted to be presenting this particular award as you well know I think breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

Yvonne had previously helped the Vegetarian Society with their V Healthy program

Other presenters included Royal author and journalist Penny Junor and vegetarian cook book author and presenter Rose Elliot

The UK Vegetarian Society is based in Altrincham, near Manchester, Cheshire but came down to London en masse to present awards and entertain supporters at London's Canal Museum near The London Eurostar terminal.

Guests were entertained by Neal and Sue Richardson and their band Impromptu who entertained guests at the very first Vegetarian awards and at Yvonne's wedding in the New Forest.

Which? confused about Omega 3

Omega 3 claims not clear - in Which?

You can be forgiven for getting confused about ALA / EPA and DHA - even Which? get confused. They mixed up ALA and EPA in a recent news item. Even though they seem a bit non committal about vegetarian sources of DHA and EPA essential fats at least they give one of them ( V Pure algae) a plug. Here's our list of sustainable plant based alternatives to omega 3 fish oil.

V-Pure Algae plant based EPA / DHA omega 3 fish alternative
This DHA rich Algal oil also has some EPA in it. The Algae is grown in steel tanks in a controlled environment and then the essential fats are coaxed out using a unique high tech natural process to allow the production of a concentrated omega 3 DHA rich oil

Echium Oil an omega 3 rich plant based fish oil alternative that converts well to EPA
Echium is a most amazing plant that has naturally ocurring longer chain omega 3 and omega 6 fats. The combination of these two longer chain essential fats means that in studies Echium oil converts to EPA 5 times more efficiently than flax oil.

Omega 7 - Sea Buckthorn Oil
Foods for Life Nutritionist Gareth Zeal has revealed that research suggests that omega 7 - particularly Seabuckthorn oil, which is rich in omega 7, like longer chain omega 6 helps with the conversion pathway and makes it easier for the body to convert shorter chain essential fat omega oils into longer chain essential fats such as EPA and DHA.