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Eat Mediterranean for all round good health

Our blogger Pippa reminds us of the principles of the Mediterranean and Blue Zone diets and why we should be trying to adopt this advice. There is now so much evidence that maintaining a healthy weight, regular exercise, good sleep habits and looking after your mental health all have a beneficial effect on healthy ageing. [...]

More good reasons to go 'Mediterranean'

A study of over 7000 men and women at risk of cardiovascular disease, has concluded that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with either extra virgin olive oil or mixed nuts may cut the risk of cardiovascular events by as much as 30% in subjects at high risk of developing heart disease, as compared with people advised [...]

How to have a happy and healthy heart

In the health awareness calendar for 2024, February is Heart Health month. New research was published on 22nd January, stating that premature deaths from cardiovascular disease have reached their highest rate in England for more than a decade.  We have written extensively about nutrition to support a healthy cardiovascular system so this is a timely [...]

Keeping you healthy in mind and body

Here is a summary of some of our blogs that Pippa Mitchell has written in the past that are related to the Mediterranean Diet and why it is so important to adopt these principles to protect us from a range of diseases.  Click through to read more on each subject: Cardiovascular disease (high blood pressure, [...]

10 top tips to improve your health

Prof Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth was a recent guest on Jim Al Khalili’s radio programme The Life Scientific. He argued the need to re-evaluate what we think we know about a good diet: the importance of diversity in the types of food we eat on a daily basis and the unique mix [...]

Luck’s Yard Hero: Annita von Haselberg

Continuing on from our Active Aging article we published at the end of last year (https://www.lucksyardclinic.com/active-ageing/), we thought it would be fun to share the reflections and ideas of some of our patients this year, who are over 60 – our Luck’s Yard Heroes. They inspire us each week in the clinic with their wit [...]

How to be a ‘Super Ager’

We have recently been featuring a blog on our Luck’s Yard Clinic homepage where we invite our more mature clients to comment on how they live their lives in an active and health manner – our own Super Agers! To that end I have put together this blog on healthy ageing paying particular attention to [...]

Keep your brain healthy

There has been lots in the news this week about Alzheimer's and dementia with information about the prevalence of these brain disorders and what can be done to prevent them. I decided to write this blog to collate the current thinking on this issue and also to give you  advice on how you can help [...]

Go nuts for nuts!

Another piece of research has been published showing that nut consumption as part of a Mediterranean diet can significantly reduce death associated with cardiovascular disease. Over 7000 men and women took part in the trial in Spain, a country that has a relatively high dietary intake of nuts per person.  None of the group had [...]

Liver little healthier!

We are nearly at the end of the first week of the New Year and no doubt resolutions have been made and broken already! It can be hard to change long held habits so even if your plans have not quite panned out there is still plenty of time to help our body get over [...]

Best foot forward …..

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art”  Leonardo da Vinci Did you know that 1/3 of all the bones in the body are located in our feet? There are 26 of them, and each foot also has 33 joints, 19 muscles, 10 tendons and 107 ligaments. Two and a [...]

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