Nutrition
 

Julia FitzGerald the FitFarms and former Daily Telegraph nutritional therapist has devised a simple and tasty menu to support you through the week and provide inspiration for when you return home. Julia has sifted through the facts and fallacies of healthy eating and weight loss to create a menu based on nutrition principles supported by scientific study. Working closely with Mikael, the FitFarms chef they have ensured that the food is delicious and created mostly from local, organic and seasonal produce.

Their goal is to send you home with a renewed passion for food and with lots of easy-to-follow recipes. Before you know it you will have transformed your regular diet and released yourself from fad dieting forever.

Unlike most weight loss diets and boot camps, the FitFarms nutritional programme is not simply about cutting calories. The problem with low calorie diets is that the results tend to be short-term, with many people seeing their weight return to its pre-diet level or even increase when they return to their old dietary habits. This causes both physical and emotional stress which can lead to a cycle of negative behaviour involving feelings of deprivation, guilt and failure.

Here at FitFarms our focus is on having a more positive relationship with food and inspiring permanent change. We don't just see food simply as fuel; it's about giving your body what it needs to restore balance and help itself. Providing the right nutrients at the right time ensures that appetite and cravings stay under control and crucially promotes portion size re-training. Attendees often comment on how surprised they are that they don't feel hungry and that they have plenty of energy for the activities, despite the change from their usual diet. We've found this approach particularly helpful for anyone experiencing a weight plateau while following low calorie diets.

The intake of carbohydrates, protein and healthy fats are also carefully balanced to encourage fat burning while building muscle. Again, this highlights our focus on helping you to achieve permanent results. Improving your body composition in this way has been shown to have long-term health benefits as well as making it easier to reach and maintain a healthy weight.

 
 
Julia FitzGerald Daily Telegraph Articles

Diet: The (almost) healthy eating plan

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Our new resident nutritionist eased her own aches and pains by following a rejuvenating regime - most of the time. She tells Cassandra Jardine how we can do the same. Like most people, Julia Fitzgerald began to pay attention to what she ate and drank only after she became ill. Ten years ago, aged 22, she suffered whiplash following a car crash.

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10-minute nutrition: the post-lunch slump
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: surviving the post-lunch slump. Do you feel tired and irritable after lunch and reach for a sugary snack to get you through the afternoon? If so, erratic blood sugar levels could be the problem.

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10 minute nutrition (Daily Telegraph)
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to look after your liver. There is an easy, widely available nutritional solution to heart attacks: Vitamin C. Needless to say, taking more vitamin C has been opposed by big pharma and its mainstream medicine followers for decades.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to avoid sickness when travelling abroad Whether you're off for two weeks in the sun or a gap year adventure, the last thing you want is to worry about your health while you're away. Follow these tips for managing common holiday ailments.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to nurture your thyroid. The thyroid is a small, hormone-producing gland in your neck. One of its many functions is to regulate how quickly your cells burn calories.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to treat insomnia. Most people have experienced problems sleeping, whether it's frequent waking, poor-quality sleep or trouble dropping off in the first place.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how your diet can improve fertility. Many couples experience difficulties trying to conceive. But by making a few changes to your eating habits before and during pregnancy both of you could boost your chances of success.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to look after your heart. Thanks to great leaps in modern surgical procedure and the development of drugs that control blood pressure and cholesterol levels, many people have become complacent about heart health.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to manage your hormones. As many as nine out of 10 women are affected by PMS or menstrual symptoms. More heartening is news that, for many, diet can make all the difference.

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10 minute nutrition
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Nutritional therapist Julia FitzGerald offers easy tips for healthier living. This week: how to look after your gut. We each carry more than two pounds of bacteria in our digestive systems. Most of it is "friendly", lining the gut and acting as a filter that allows nutrients through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream, while keeping undigested food and waste out.

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