Wellbeing
Advice on how to maintain a healthy, well balanced diet that all the family can enjoy.
We're all bombarded with information about what is good for us to eat and best to avoid - from miracle foods to the latest diet fad. These pages aim to clear the confusion and only dish up factual and helpful information.
Food is your body’s fuel - whether you are a busy parent preparing your family’s dinner or an athlete training for a special event, what you put in your body is essential to good health. Feast on these ideas and, if you have a specific question, you can ask one of our experts.
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AXA Health physiologist and nutritionist, Thomas Rothwell sorts food fact from fiction to help you make the best decisions when it comes to your diet and boosting your overall health and wellbeing.
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AXA Health nutritionist and physiologist, Polly Smith explores the link between our diet and our thoughts and feelings, as well as how to develop a healthy relationship with food.
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With breakfast being a meal that has come under some scrutiny or been made unnecessarily confusing over recent years, we wanted to share what our health experts eat to set them up for the day ahead, to show just how diverse a breakfast can be.
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Georgina Camfield, associate nutritionist at AXA Health, offers delicious vegan alternatives to festive favourites for everyone at the table to enjoy.
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Vitamins are a way of supplementing your diet, which people only tend to consider as health or age-related issues emerge.
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Can the food you eat really improve your mood? Yes, according to Raj Kundhi, Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr), here at AXA Health.
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Sugar – it’s sweet, delicious and, when consumed as part of a balanced diet, is definitely not something (else) to feel guilty about...
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Healthy eating doesn’t have to mean taking the enjoyment out of food. It’s possible to have fun and make delicious meals using healthy ingredients with a few little tricks and hacks along the way. Ceitanna Cooper, Registered Associate Nutritionist at AXA Health shares her top 6 tips for keeping your diet interesting.
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AXA Health physiologist and Registered Associate Nutritionist, Georgina Camfield, shares her nutrition tips to help increase your daily energy levels.
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Salads may once have conjured up an image of limp leaves and tasteless tomatoes, but not any more. AXA Health associate nutritionist, Raj Kundhi shares her tips for making vibrant, nutritious and above all, delicious salads worth celebrating!
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We need a certain amount of salt in our diet for good health, but too much salt can cause high blood pressure and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, Here we look at how to get the balance right.
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Intuitive eating is the ‘anti-diet’ approach to nutrition. AXA Health Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr), Gina Camfield explains how it can help you rebuild a healthy body image and make peace with food.
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AXA Health nutritionist and physiologist, Polly Smith explores the link between our diet and our thoughts and feelings, as well as how to develop a healthy relationship with food.
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We’ve known for some time that nutrients found in certain foods and drinks – like turmeric, blueberries and green tea – have earned them the title of ‘superfoods’, a term first coined by health food marketers.
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How can you develop healthy eating habits? AXA Health nutritionist shares his top tips
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AXA Health Dietician Rita Makri shares her tips for preserving food and suggests some tasty recipes that make the most of store cupboard ingredients most of us have at home.
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Liverpool FC’s Head of Nutrition, Mona Nemmer joined our panel of experts to discuss the important role nutrition plays in achieving overall good health and share their top tips for fitting a healthy diet into our busy lives.
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Your metabolism is a set of life-sustaining chemical reactions that occur in the body such as breathing, digestion and growth and repair of tissues – basically, it’s what keeps your body going. In this article, Polly Smith and Tom Rothwell, physiologists at AXA Health, separate the fact from fiction.
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AXA Health physiologist Anna Fountain explains how a vegetarian diet can go hand in hand with meeting your necessary protein needs.
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AXA Health Programme Lead Physiologist Tom Browne and Dietitian Rita Makri share their top tips on how you can be in control, whether you want to maintain your diet or to improve it.
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It’s becoming more common for people to have alternatives to cow’s milk in their diet, with almost a quarter of Britons consuming the plant-based alternatives.
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Specialist Mr Moorthy, explains gastric band surgery.
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As we get older, things that we found so easy to do become more challenging.
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Simple ways to give British food a Med-style twist...
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Watching your cholesterol doesn’t have to go out of the window during summer.
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Good digestive (gut) health is the cornerstone of our immune system, helping to fend off illnesses and help us thrive.There are particular foods that can help.
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Creating a daily calorie deficit by eating less and/or exercising more is the accepted approach to losing weight. But research suggests that extra helpings of healthier foods like whole grains, nuts, fruit, vegetables and yoghurt may be more important than totting up your overall calorie intake.
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Mmm... it sounds too good to be true but chocolate - including those Easter eggs that are everywhere at the moment - may actually be healthy. Nutritionist Ceitanna Cooper reveals why small amounts of chocolate can boost your health in more ways than one. Five good reasons why chocolate is good.
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AXA Health physiologist and nutritionist, Thomas Rothwell sorts food fact from fiction to help you make the best decisions when it comes to your diet and boosting your overall health and wellbeing.
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AXA Health lead physiologist, Tom Rothwell, explains the basic science behind an age-old question: ‘what's the secret to fat loss?’
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Registered nutritionist, Ceitanna Cooper shares her top 5 tips to prepare and cook healthier BBQ food.
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From packed lunch staple, to post work-out snack, breakfast cereal topper and pancake filler – there are many ways we use the under-rated banana to satiate our appetite. But did you know this nutritional powerhouse is loaded with more health-giving good stuff than we might give it credit for?
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Fats are a fundamental component of our diets, but the quantity and quality of the fats we eat is something that we should consider.
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For this topic, ‘Drinking alcohol – when is there a problem?’ Dr Mark Winwood, our Director of Psychological Services, hosted a live chat providing tips on cutting down on alcohol
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You’ve decided to consume less caffeine, but life without lattes seems bleak.
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Public Health England has updated guidance for vitamin D.
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Dehydration can result from simply not drinking enough water, sweating, vomiting or diarrhoea. Here's how to keep your fluid levels topped up.
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In the long-term, excessive drinking of alcohol can cause many health problems. Find out how alcohol affects different parts of your body and try our expert tips to help you cut down.
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Reducing your caffeine intake has various health benefits. AXA Health's Dr Mark Winwood shares his tips for cutting down on caffeine.
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Nothing peps up your morning or turns around your afternoon slump like a cup of tea or coffee, but caffeine can disrupt our much-needed sleep and it's addictive too, so here leading psychologist, Dr Mark Winwood shares 8 reasons to try to cut down.
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