Author Archives: Ananda Mahony
Food marketing to kids?!?
Have you ever perused the food options on the shelves of the supermarket looking for the healthiest option, and then read the ingredients only to find it was loaded with sugar…or something that sounds like sugar but you just can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Health Tips, nutrition, Uncategorized
Tagged hidden sugar, ultra processed foods
Throwing the baby spinach out with the bath water
Recently I went into a well known supermarket looking for some leafy greens to go with the dinner I was cooking. I scanned the shelves and all I could see was packets of baby spinach, rocket or mixed greens, neither … Continue reading
Posted in Health Tips, nutrition
Tagged healthy nutrition, leafy greens, nutritional variety, spinach
Is modern life responsible for skin conditions?
The skin is a protective barrier between the outside world and our internal processes. Living on the skin is a whole world of microbes otherwise known as the skin microbiome. This bacterial world plays a key role in maintaining skin … Continue reading
Posted in acne, Psoriasis, Rosacea, Sensitive Skin, Skin Health
Tagged healthy microbiome, Psoriasis, skin microbiome, well-being
A new culprit in Type 2 Diabetes
Fat rather than sugar may be the most significant culprit in the development of diabetic neuropathy in Type 2 diabetics. Diabetic neuropathy is the most common complication of diabetes. It can occur anywhere but commonly in legs and feet leading … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic pain management, neuropathy
Tagged diabetic neuropathy, fat and sugar, nutrition
You are what you eat in chronic pain
Over the last decade we have seen a flood of evidence linking a poor diet with chronic health conditions. But what about chronic pain? Until recently the role of diet in relation to chronic pain in most areas has been … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic pain management, nutrition
Tagged chronic pain, diet, fruit and vegetables, healthy nutrition and diet
Stress impacts our gut bugs
A new study from Nature Scientific Reports indicates that stress may be as unhealthy to our gut microbiota as a bad diet. The study was carried out on animals but may have implications for humans. The researchers set out to … Continue reading
Posted in Health Tips, IBS, Stress
Tagged gut bugs, microbiota, stress
Holistic Pain Management Podcast 2
This podcast is a follow up to Holistic Pain Management Part 1 and in it Andrew Whitfield-Cook and I discuss some of the treatment strategies that are employed as part of a holistic approach to chronic pain. Holistic Pain Management … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic pain management, neuropathy, nutrition, pain psychology
Tagged chronic pain, chronic pain treatment, low back pain, mindfulness, nutrition, wellbeing
Orange glasses improve sleep
Over the last few years my sleep can go through bad patches and during these times I can have difficulty falling asleep or wake through the night. I no longer feel stressed by this as I once did and I … Continue reading
Posted in Insomnia
Tagged blue light blocking, Insomnia, orange glasses
Black Seed Oil – the skin wunderkind
Corticosteroids are a cornerstone of topical treatment in most inflammatory skin conditions. However, this treatment comes with the potential for significant risk including thinning of the skin, development of spider veins and suppression of normal stress responses via the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal … Continue reading
Posted in acne, Psoriasis, Sensitive Skin, Skin Health
Tagged black seed oil, nigella seed, Skin Health
Holistic Pain Management – Part 1
In this podcast I discuss the origins and assessment of chronic pain with Andrew Whitfield-Cook. It was important for me to get across that chronic pain persists for reasons beyond peripheral input. While that may be part of the issue, … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic pain management, pain psychology
Tagged Chronic pain management
