Services Available
Laura has expertise in many areas of nutrition and health, details of which can be found below. To help you achieve your goals, you have the option of different packages which can be tailored to suit your individual needs. To find out more click here.
Weight Management
Millions of people across the world are currently ‘dieting’ to shed those extra pounds or kilos, but does it work? Keeping weight off in the long term is very different from following the latest ‘diet.’ Trying to follow something which doesn’t really fit into our life is hard to stick to and weight gain can often happen, when the diet is inevitably ‘broken.’
Our day to day life is made up of many habits. The key to successful weight loss that lasts is changing these habits by developing the right skills and strategies to deal with them.
Managing our weight is a challenge and many factors can play a part in our success. Laura can help you understand all aspects of your weight management and sort the facts from the fiction about what will work. Together, you can look at all the issues involved and come up with a way forward that works for you.
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
If you have been diagnosed with PCOS, you may be aware that eating the right balance of foods and maintaining a healthy weight is key to improving symptoms and reducing the risk of long term health problems. In fact, diet and lifestyle modifications have been advocated as one of the primary treatments to manage the symptoms of PCOS.
Laura can provide you with the latest evidence for diet and PCOS, and give you the opportunity to understand insulin resistance and the valuable role diet can play in controlling your symptoms and improving your wellbeing.
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Type 2 Diabetes
You may have just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or had it for some time. Diabetes is a chronic condition, although it can’t be cured, it can be treated very successfully.
The ideal aim of treatment is to achieve blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels as near to normal as possible. This, together with a healthy lifestyle, will help to improve your wellbeing and protect against long-term damage to the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and major arteries. What you eat, how much activity you do and what your weight is are therefore central to your treatment for diabetes. Laura can look at all these factors with you and help you to work out a plan to suit you.
You may be taking tablets and/or insulin to help you achieve normal blood glucose levels. Information from your medical practitioner on your medical treatment and medication would be needed, prior to your consultation.
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Nutrition and Heart Health
Eating a healthy diet can help to protect you against heart disease as diet plays a significant part in helping to reduce the major risk factors for heart disease such as your cholesterol levels, weight or blood pressure.
Laura can provide you with the latest evidence on links between diet and heart health and together you can take a closer look at your usual diet, and consider what changes would help to reduce your risk. It is also the ideal opportunity to consider what changes and additions to your diet could help to protect your heart health in the long term.
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Nutrition and preventing disease
There is a huge amount of evidence which places diet at the forefront of disease prevention and good health and wellbeing throughout life. Give your diet an ‘M.O.T’ to ensure you are meeting all your nutritional needs and protecting yourself against future health problems.
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Nutrition and Fertility
A healthy balanced diet, which gives your body all its essential nutrients for health and wellbeing, is really important when trying to conceive. Being a healthy body weight is also important before pregnancy. If you're underweight, it can be more difficult to conceive and if you're overweight, you run a greater risk of complications such as high blood pressure and diabetes during pregnancy.
Keeping healthy is also important for the father to be. A good balance of nutrients within the diet, particularly vitamins and minerals, has a vital role to play in male fertility.
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Nutrition and Pregnancy
During pregnancy you need to make sure that your diet is providing you with enough energy and nutrients for the baby to grow and develop, and for your body to deal with the changes taking place. Laura can help you to achieve the right balance for you and your growing baby.
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Nutrition and the Menopause
Having a healthy diet and lifestyle and being a healthy weight can make the changes and symptoms the menopause brings more manageable. It is also an ideal opportunity to consider the protection the diet can give you against other diseases such as osteoporosis and heart disease. Laura can look at your current diet and lifestyle and together you can work out a plan that meets your needs and fits alongside any other treatment you may be having.
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Nutrition and Sport
Good nutrition plays a vital role in helping you achieve your optimal sporting performance.
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Nutrition for Mums
As a Mum, sorting out your own diet and health can feel a little low on the priority list as the needs of your little ones inevitably come first. In the transition from the familiar 9-5 to a new routine where time simply seems to disappear the what, why, when and how of family nutrition can seem a little overwhelming.
Whether your goal is to get back into your pre baby wardrobe, or simply to improve your knowledge and understanding of the nutritional facts and fiction behind the supermarket shelves, help is at hand. As a busy working Mum herself, Laura can provide both professional and practical advice.
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