Thai pumpkin and coconut soup
Try Nutritional Therapist Fiona Hayers' delicious vegan soup to keep you warm this winter! Serves 8 INGREDIENTS 4 tbsp olive or coconut oil 4 small onions or large shallots, roughly chopped 2 red chillies, finely chopped 4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped 4 cm root ginger, peeled and finely chopped 1 kilo of fresh pumpkin/butternut [...]
What’s your intention for 2024?
Rather than making resolutions for the year ahead, the Luck’s Yard Team are making intentions instead. We decided that this allows for a bit of failure and is a way of being kinder to ourselves while trying to adopt good or give up bad habits! Here are some of our intentions: More self-care including more [...]
Veganism – is it right for me?
January is the time for New Year’s resolutions with many of these are designed to improve our overall health and wellbeing. It has become popular in the last few years to adopt a vegan diet in the New Year, in fact Veganuary is thought to have been followed by over 700,000 people last year. But [...]
Gestational Diabetes: are you at risk?
What is gestational diabetes and how you can minimise your risk Gestational diabetes is a condition where high blood sugar levels develop during pregnancy, most commonly during the second or third trimester. It affects both the mother and baby and if left uncontrolled during pregnancy, high blood sugar levels can lead to complications during childbirth, [...]
How do you successfully fuel for a long run or cycle?
There is much debate about when and what to eat before and after training – some opinions favour loading up with carbs, others rave about training when fasted. So how do you choose the best option for you? First, lets consider why we fuel before exercise. In order to train well and perform at our [...]
How to keep healthy at the start of the new school year
Fiona Hayers, Nutritional Therapist at Luck's Yard Clinic points us in the right direction to help our children deal with seasonal coughs and colds. The start of a new school year is upon us after a long summer break. We are all good at getting the kids ready with pencil cases, school shoes, sports kits [...]
Back to school
Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach, Fiona Hayers offers advice to help your children back to school/college for the start of the new term. With the start of a new school year only a short time away, is the prospect of getting everyone up and out of the door in time is filling you with fear? [...]
Breakfast before school
With the start of the new school term looming one of the things that can really help your child to learn and focus is getting them to eat something for breakfast and I’m not talking about a packet of crisps and fizzy drink bought on the way to school! Why is breakfast important? Children’s brains [...]
Travel tummies
You have been looking forward to your holiday for months; time to relax, leave stress of work behind and enjoy trying out some new cuisine but holidays can bring their own stresses on your body and especially on your digestive system. Time changes, altered eating routines and sleep patterns all increase tummy sensitivity. How do [...]
