All I Want For You This Christmas.. Is To Be Healthy 🎵
Wishing you all a healthy and happy Christmas and New Year.
Thank you for all of your support over the past year. I look forward to 2020 with more exciting videos.
And remember over the festive season to eat and drink responsibly.
🎶
I don’t want a cough this Christmas.
There is just one thing I need
— and I
I just want to see my patients,
healthy, happy illness free.
Make a booking on the phone.
See your doctor don’t stay home.
Make my wish come true.
All I want for you this Christmas,
is to be healthy.
All the lights are shining,
migraines everywhere.
And the sound of children,
DOCTOR HELP ME clear the... Read More
What gets you going in the morning?
After a quick exercise regime, I usually kick start my day with a skinny cappuccino. ☕️ After decades of research the World Health Organisation (WHO) have removed coffee off the possible carcinogen list and there’s increasing evidence that it can have positive impacts on health. The WHO have designated coffee as potentially being protective against cancer of the uterus and liver. 🤓
Though, as with every good thing, it does need to be drunk in moderation as drinking over 4 cups a day can actually increase your risk of heart disease, cause high blood pressure... Read More
Pregnant?
As part of your antenatal programme be sure to have your Oral Glucose Tolerance Test from 24-28 weeks. This test is available to all pregnant women and helps to detect a condition known as Gestational Diabetes. This is a form of diabetes that only occurs during pregnancy and requires further specialist involvement during your pregnancy. If diagnosed you may be at risk of delivering a large baby, having low blood sugar for you and baby and in more serious cases baby may have difficulty breathing after delivery. It’s important to remember that most women with Gestational Diabetes have normal healthy... Read More
How to Pick a Healthy Chocolate Dessert? | Doctor Explains 🍫
Join me as I tour the Versace Dessert table explaining which are the healthy options and which are not and why.
CHOCOLATE
The cocoa bean, native to the Amazon basin, is now widely found in countries across the world. The bean goes through a process of drying and fermenting to produce cocoa solids and cocoa butter, the foundation of chocolate.
Chocolate is regarded as being beneficial to health the higher the percentage it is. For example 90% dark chocolate contains more cocoa and less butter, sugar and emulsifiers, giving it a bitter taste. As a rule of thumb, the lighter the colour... Read More