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SPRING RE-SET RECIPE: Morning Green Juice

May 8, 2019 Tania Smith
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If you are starting a new regime, a pre-IVF, pre-Summer, pre-holiday and pre-showing bits of yourself that have been hidden for the Winter, then starting your day as you mean to go on is the way to go. I love the way this green juice makes me feel, it is so clean and fresh and so very green! And when I have it in the morning it inspires me to keep going with the green theme.

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In Nutrition, Recipes Tags green juice, spring recipes, detox, cleanse, nutrition, IVF

SPRING RE-SET RECIPE: Watercress & Green Pea Soup

May 8, 2019 Tania Smith
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I love soups; almost anything can go in them and for a Spring re-set it’s got be green! Dark green leafy vegetables contain a multitude of fantastic nutrients to help fertility, like beta- carotene for good ovarian function, magnesium for hormone balancing and omega three fatty acids and natural vitamin E. And the green pigment chlorophyll is known for having huge health benefits;

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In Nutrition, Recipes Tags spring recipes, detox, cleanse, soup, watercress, nutrients, magnesium, hormone balancing, chlorophyll, fertility

SPRING RE-SET RECIPE: Salsa Verde (Green sauce)

May 8, 2019 Tania Smith
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This is one of my all-time favourite recipes which really says welcome to Spring. You can transform a simple baked white fish or poached chicken with salsa verde; you can drizzle it over new potatoes, mix it through rice or pasta, and drizzle it over peas, tender stem broccoli and asparagus. It adds such a delicious fresh flavour, and aromatic herbs are stuffed full of nutrients too. With garlic and onion and earthy spicy olive oil it is a really simple way of making something plain delicious w

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In Recipes, Nutrition Tags salsa verde, spring recipes, recipes, herbs, cleanse, nutrition

Beautiful Beets

May 8, 2014 Melanie Brown
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Beetroot is not everyone’s favourite vegetable but it has had a bit of a revival recently thanks to its use by athletes at the Olympics for increasing blood flow to the muscles. For women undergoing IVF with thin uterine lining I often recommend 300mls of beetroot juice a day until embryo transfer for the same reason.

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Best Winter Warming Healthy Lentil and Vegetable Soup

January 17, 2014 Melanie Brown
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This just the most delicious soup EVER! It’s from my friend Ali Godbold’s lovely recipe book ‘Feed Your Health’. I give the recipe to all my clients because it includes so many good ‘fertility’ foods but everyone loves it. The original recipe isn’t blended but, for me, smooth is best. The recipe is exactly as it says, so if you follow it, it will be perfect and it is so simple to make.

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Wonderful Watercress

June 13, 2013 Melanie Brown
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All my clients know I am mad about watercress; those peppery little leaves pack an amazing nutrient punch.  It’s a bit of an acquired taste I know but absolutely worth it. Watercress is particularly good if you have ever smoked; it contains a specific compound that may protect against lung cancer, and like broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables it also seems to protect against other common cancers like breast and colon.

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5:2 Diet up-date

April 10, 2013 Melanie Brown
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I think we have finally cracked it at last. If you can stick with the 5:2 diet, and try out different things I think it should work for almost everyone. Husband is now the weight and fitness level he was when he was 15 (so he says….) and best of all a client who had multiple failed IVFs and needed to lose weight before another one was attempted just did it, lost the weight, looks fabulous and is pregnant at last.

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In Nutrition, Recipes Tags 5:2 diet, diet, nutrition

Healthy Soda Bread

January 21, 2013 Melanie Brown
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A recipe for delicious, nutritious soda bread made from spelt, kamut and rye flours. Best served warm!

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In Nutrition, Recipes Tags soda bread, bread, rye flour, kamut flour, spelt flour, seeds

5:2 Diet up-date

January 21, 2013 Melanie Brown
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When I first blogged about this (see 5:2 diet), I had just begun to inflict it on my husband and our hapless long-stay visitor, as well as my poor, unsuspecting clients. It was the early days and my enthusiasm knew no bounds; I forced us all to eat broccoli soup for lunch AND supper – why complicate it?

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Raw food, sprouting and spinach massage (yes!)

December 26, 2012 Melanie Brown
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I have just returned from a great week working in Morocco where I met a fantastic chef who specializes in raw food called Hayley North. I am a bit of a relaxed nutritionist and not very interested in hard core food movements that restrict or only allow certain foods with a religious fervour.

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In Nutrition, Recipes Tags raw food, sprouts, sprouting, spinach, massage

Umami: satisfying foods for the ‘fifth’ taste sense

February 8, 2012 Melanie Brown
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One of the dilemmas of my work is convincing people that you can eat healthy food that actually tastes of something. When you are asking people to cut down the three things that make food taste good – salt, sugar and fat it can be a hard call.

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Slow cooking

January 21, 2012 Melanie Brown
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My slow cooker is my absolute favourite piece of kitchen equipment. I love it and for those of us without the luxury of an Aga it really is the next best thing. You just bung all your ingredients in, switch it on and when you come home in the evening you are greeted by the most delicious smells and nothing to do but sit down and eat, heaven!

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Eggs, fabulous brain food

September 14, 2011 Melanie Brown
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I am fast approaching the age when my brain certainly needs looking after, if not totally replacing! So as well as anti-aging things I am always on the look out for brain-enhancing information. And eggs really fit the bill, cheap and cheerful, they are full of protein, iron, vitamin B12 and anti-oxidants.

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In Fertility, Nutrition, Recipes Tags eggs, nutrition, B12, antioxidants, anti-aging

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