Nourish
- Jan 28, 2017
- 2 min read
Hello Hun
January is nearly over and pay day is nigh. Hurray!
I didn’t make any resolutions for the year but did choose a word for the year - Coeurage. I think that I might add the word Nourish.
This month I have returned to the candida diet that I’ve been on a couple of times before, but this time I’ve done it properly. A strict diet and an outrageous number of supplements!
I fell off the no-sugar wagon a couple of times in December, was on antibiotics last October and enjoyed far too many alcoholic beverages over the year. All together I was feeling pretty yucky and sluggish on the inside. Four weeks on I feel more energised and light hearted for following this crazy strict diet and I’m inspired to implement some long term changes. I have to mention that Matt’s been amazingly supportive (given that his resting level of cynicism is pretty high) and has mostly joined in.
Coconut pancakes for breakfast (there's been A LOT of coconut this month).
Go Red Day
February 3 2017 is Go Red for Women. I wanted to highlight the work of the American Heart association in raising awareness of heart attacks and strokes in women.
Cardio vascular disease is something close to me. Many of the women in my Mum’s family have suffered with heart conditions or strokes. What I didn’t realise until recently was how common it is for women of all ages to die of heart attacks.
Here are some statistics from the American Heart Association (I tried to find something similar for the UK but could not find anywhere that broke down the statistics by gender as clearly).
Heart disease and stroke causes 1 in 3 women’s deaths each year, killing approximately one woman every minute.
90 percent of women have one or more risk factors for developing heart disease.
Since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease and the gap between men and women’s survival continues to widen.
While 1 in 31 American women dies from breast cancer each year, 1 in 3 dies of heart disease.
The symptoms of heart attack in women are much subtler than in men and so women don’t always seek immediate medical attention. This light hearted video shows the symptoms.
If you’d like to know more about the research around heart disease in women, watch this talk from Dr C. Noel Bairley Merz.
Until next time,
Mmmwah x
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