The fertility-boosting diet - That's Fit UK

The fertility-boosting diet - That's Fit UK

More fertility advice from Foods for Life's London Harley Street Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston on 'That's Fit' a new healthy living website from AOL

Changing Faces - Celebrity TV

Changing Faces - Shows - Virgin Media

Leading UK Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston is back on TV this week as Living channel shows repeats of Changing Faces. The TV series looks at the hoops that celebrities such as Madonna, Kylie, Posh, Katie Price and Cheryle Cole have to jump through in an effort to look like a celebrity.

They then predict what celebrities may look like when they are 60.

Yvonne Bishop-Weston comments on diet and health and looks at natural solutions for staying youthfull.

Leon Restaurants - Nutrition

Leon Restaurants - Nutrition



Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston has been helping Leon Restaurants with their low GL (Low Glycaemic Load) menu. See Daily Leon Nutrition

Yvonne says "It's very refreshing to work with caterers who care about health" although she admits there is more work to do at the London restaurant group.

Cholesterol in Plant Foods, Nuts, Fruit , Vegetables

Low Cholesterol Diet: - Nutrition with Dina Aronson, R.D.

The owner of one of our healthy eating cookbooks emailed today to question why on the nutritional analysis of the plant based recipe that it showed minute amounts of cholesterol.

Surely a recipe marked suitable for vegans shouldn't have cholesterol in it?

A Doctor will tell you that plants have cells and ALL cell membranes contain cholesterol.

There is an article that suggests different textbooks are wrong when they state that plants do not contain cholesterol (http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/choles.htm) The author bases his argument on:
E. J. Behrman and V. Gopalan (2005) Cholesterol and plants J. Chem. Educ. in press. Behrman and Gopalan (2005)

They suggest the following as an accurate account of the real sterol content of plants: More than 250 steroids have been described in plants. Of these, perhaps sitosterol, which differs from cholesterol by an ethyl substituent at position 24, is the most common. But plants also contain cholesterol both free and esterified. Cholesterol occurs as a component of plant membranes and as part of the surface lipids of leaves where it is sometimes the major sterol. The quantity of cholesterol is generally small when expressed a percent of total lipid. While cholesterol averages perhaps 50 mg/kg total lipid in plants, it can be as high as 5 g/kg (or more) in animals.

So there is cholesterol in plants but in very small amounts. Also experts now believe that the cholesterol your body makes (an essential function) and the balance between HDL andLDL cholesterol levels in the body are more important factors than dietary cholesterol (even from animals)

The key point is that plant foods can help your body deal with imbalance and causes of high cholesterol production that are linked with chronic disease. Treat the cause not the symptom.

The Diet & Fitness Show

The Diet & Fitness Show

Leading UK Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston will be explaining some of the myths about food, nutrition and weight loss at the Diet and Fitness Show at Olympia, London, 24th January 2010 at 2.15 pm

A rare opportunity to meet this dynamic weight loss expert and discover her secrets of sustainable weight loss and optimal health without booking an appointment at Harley Street.

Nutritional advice when trying for a baby - Food Nutrition Healthy Eating | Bounty

Nutritional advice when trying for a baby - Food Nutrition Healthy Eating | Bounty

Nutritionist at the firm Yvonne Bishop-Weston explains that variety is important when trying for a baby.

At Christmas in particular, she warns that there is a tendency to overeat on a small number of "Christmas staples".

V-Healthy::The Vegetarian Society

V-Healthy::The Vegetarian Society

Harley Street Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston applies the science of optimum nutrition to a plant based diet at the request of the UK Vegetarian Society at the risk of vegetarians becoming as smug on health issues as they already are on environmental issues.

Vegetarians and Vegans have long since apparently assumed that they have the healthiest possible diet. In fact many people embark on a vegetarian diet assuming it's healthier.

Generally that's true but the basic principles of health still have to be followed - pizza, pasta and chip butties are all vegetarian foods but there are many nutrients missing from the average examples of those foods.

There are just one or two important nutrients  that you don't get "by accident" the way it's easy to do in a meat based diet so it's even more important for vegetarians to eat a varied diet to achieve an optimal nutrition balance. Ironically meat eaters are often low in the nutrients (such as iron and vitamin B12) that feature in the myths about inadequate vegetarian diets.