by Ilona Madden | Feb 9, 2025 | Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy
Why do we feel loved when we eat sugar? When we sugar, it activates similar parts in our brain. It releases similar brain chemicals as when we experience emotions such as love, affection, sympathy, empathy, being cared for, being hugged, being appreciated, being...
by Ilona Madden | May 10, 2024 | Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy
Many people have been telling me that they don’t want to live a life where they constantly must think about whether something is good for them or not. They tell me, they want to eat a piece of cake when they fancy it and not restrict themselves. While they do...
by Ilona Madden | Oct 3, 2022 | Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Success Stories
The Diet Industry is keeping most people trapped in a cycle of “being on a diet” and “falling off the track” and cycles of feeling guilty and “I’m just not good enough” or “I am just not able to stick to any plans” In this article, I am going to de-bunk 3 rules that...
by Ilona Madden | Aug 30, 2021 | Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy
Do you feel more tired than normal – for no apparent reason? I hear a lot of people telling me that they “just haven’t got any energy at the moment”, “I feel so knackered all the time” “If I do xxx, I know I won’t be able to do xxx afterwards”. “I could sleep all...
by Ilona Madden | Jul 30, 2021 | Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy
Eat your spuds! For some reason, when I heard a lot of my clients or people I talk to “apologising” for eating potatoes. For some reason, potatoes seem to have gotten a reputation of being “bad” for you or being “fattening”. So, let me debunk the potato myth and show...
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