Blog Archives: 2019 | Nutri-Link UK

Do elections make you feel happy?

It’s something most of us are unlikely to have given much thought to, except that the last few years of political discourse in the UK and the upcoming 3rd election due in Dec 2019 in relatively short time has made most people more aware of politics. Consequently, some changes in relationships, creative vocalisations and political ballet dancing on thin wires has presented a complicated, and frustrating period in political and population wellbeing. Population wellbeing is an aggregate measure of positive...

Food Diets

The Food System is broken!

Over 800 million people go hungry every day, yet one third of all food currently goes to waste. Obviously, there are basic logistical challenges to getting the surplus to the hungry, but at a fundamental level this should be solvable. In turn the food industry bears responsibility for the fact that over 650 million people are obese, yet it's governments and taxpayers that pick up the cost of treatment in most cases. Large industrial-scale farms use copious quantities of water to irrigate crops, again...

Brain Health Vitamins Diets

Smoggy Brain?

It’s hard to ignore; the increase in pollutants in the air is having a serious impact on human health, function and well-being. Outdoor air pollution has grown by 8% globally in the past 5 years, with billions of people around the world now exposed to dangerous air. It causes up to 7 million early deaths a year—more than malaria and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) combined—and is now the greatest single killer in the world. A recent paper in Nature -...

Digestive Health Brain Health

Are Cognitive Biases Influencing Your Clinical Decisions?

The short answer is yes – they are, and they have a consequence. You see, interpretation and assessment errors in daily clinical care occur for many reasons, some of which are based in cognitive biases. These result from limited perspectives, faulty mental shortcuts, or unconscious biases, and yet practitioners are usually unaware they exist. Clinical practices such as Nutritional Therapy and other lifestyle orientated approaches are subject to interpretation and application error due to the elevated...

Food Diets

How a Changing Climate Impacts the Nutritional Value of Food

We often think of climate change solely in terms of influencing the weather and the environment. We may also link climate change with reduced food production due to drought and adverse weather. But we are also now learning that climate change will have a profound and negative impact on food quality and nutrient content not just quantity. Climate change refers to overall climatic changes that take place over a long period of time. This can include temperature, precipitation, and wind. Global warming...

Food Diets

Super foods Nah – you need hyper foods!

Let’s start with some clarifications – there’s no such thing as a super food! There are, however, many foods with terrific nutritional profiles: rich in valuable nutrients, free from nutritional liabilities, and either low in calories or notably satiating and with special qualities. Before we get further into this notion, be aware that a new term is going to become more mainstream to reflect these special qualities ‘hyper foods’ and naturally all such adjectives requires a process of amplification...

Immune Health Mental Health Diets

Millennials Health Goes South at Age 27

A recent report published in April 2019 by the USA based Blue Cross Insurance Group reveals a worrying trend in declining health of people born between 1981 and 1996, a demographic given the moniker of ‘millennial’. This follows a report in 2017, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that exposed a growing gulf in life expectancy between the poorest and wealthiest people, and worse still, children born in at least 13 counties were expected to live shorter lives than their parents...

Immune Health Lifestyle Medicine

Our Western Lifestyle Has Lasting Effects on Metaflammation

The generation of molecular defences to trigger and sustain the production of metabolic inflammatory episodes driven by Western lifestyles appear to create an immune programming capability. What does that mean? Our innate immune system, the one we are born with and which is not meant to have any related memory capabilities can it seems, be imprinted with patterns that retain activation after the trigger has been resolved. A challenge that may require immune resetting along with dietary and lifestyle...

Bone Health Vitamins

The Bone - Vasculature Axis and the role of Vitamin K

Vitamin K is an essential bioactive compound required for optimal body function. Vitamin K can be present in various isoforms, distinguishable by two main structures, namely, phylloquinone (K1) and menaquinones (K2). The difference in structure between K1 and K2 is seen in different absorption rates, tissue distribution, and bioavailability. With K2 being better absorbed than K1. Vitamin K was discovered in 1929 by the Danish biochemist Henrik Dam during his experiments on cholesterol metabolism...

Immune Health Food Diets

Barriers to Entry – Salt; an Inflammatory Trigger

Chronic consumption of a Western diet along with sedentary behaviour causes chronic metabolic inflammation (termed metaflammation) and is ‘memorised’ by innate immune cells through long-lasting metabolic and epigenetic cellular reprogramming. Suggesting that the innate immune system, thought to have no memory, can be programmed over time to adopt a fast memory induced response. Thanks to modern medicine and public health measures, our population assessed life expectancy is much better today than...

Do elections make you feel happy?

The Food System is broken!

Smoggy Brain?

Are Cognitive Biases Influencing Your Clinical Decisions?

How a Changing Climate Impacts the Nutritional Value of Food

Super foods Nah – you need hyper foods!

Millennials Health Goes South at Age 27

Our Western Lifestyle Has Lasting Effects on Metaflammation

The Bone - Vasculature Axis and the role of Vitamin K

Barriers to Entry – Salt; an Inflammatory Trigger

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