- Claire Baseley • Registered Nutritionist
10th October 2019
I have spent a long time ruminating on this blog. Am I ready to write it? Do I write as a nutritionist: impersonal, generic and evidence-based or do I write as a daughter, going through the myriad of emotions dealing with one parent with dementia and the other parent losing the plot as a full time carer? I don’t think I’m ever going to get it right but I do want to put a metaphorical pen to paper in case this account can help even one person going through something similar. I write therefore as someone who knows about food and nutrition but as someone who knows first-hand the pressures of looking after someone with progressive cognitive decline. There are […]
13th June 2019
Hands up who’s been on a diet? Hands up who regained most of the weight they lost? It’s not that we have suddenly started to defy the laws of thermodynamics, such that eating fewer calories than your body needs can no longer result in weight loss although to be fair, post 40, it can feel like it! Diets work, whether it’s the cabbage soup diet or simply healthy eating but only while you are on them. What happens when the diet stops is critical. Have we, as a nation, succumbed to a population collapse of willpower? Do we give up and settle for a life of jam doughnuts and wine (I mean, I’m game!)? Or do we need to rethink […]
23rd May 2019
Do you have mealtime battles with your kids in which you resort to cooking them something else you know they’ll eat or bribing them with ice cream when the meal you’ve prepared gets rejected? Do you talk about “junk food” or “treat foods” or tell your children they should avoid certain foods because they’re bad for them? Are you always dieting and talking about your own need to lose weight? Kids are like sponges and they learn from you. I can’t promise to have your child craving spinach overnight but I can give you some tips on how to speak to kids to help them form a healthy relationship with food. I was a picky eater. I literally ate nothing […]
16th May 2019
It is both Mental Health Awareness Week (which this year has a body image focus) and peak Beach Body prep time, as the media starts its annual shaming of anyone who is not a size 6 or dieting to become so. We all know that to be beach body ready, you simply need to take your body, as it is, to the beach, probably with an ice cream in hand. However, if you are currently watching what you eat or engaging in a fitness regime (which is fine if you’re doing it healthily, for the right reasons) have you thought about the way you talk about your endeavours with others? In this piece, I’d like to help you to rethink […]