Lockdown 3.0 is here in the UK, and with it come all the challenges that presents in relation to food. My hope is that this webinar can help in some way, particularly for those who are unable to access 1-on-1 support right now. During these strange times, food can become a crutch we rely on to help us through. However, when food is your only coping mechanism for dealing with these emotions, it can feel problematic. This webinar aims to help you understand your emotional eating origins, triggers, and potential tools that can help. Date: Thursday 28th January Time: 6-7:30pm (GMT) Cost: £20 full ..read more

Lockdown 2.0 is here in the UK, and with it come all the challenges that presents in relation to food. My hope is that this webinar can help in some way, particularly for those who are unable to access 1-on-1 support right now. During these strange times, food can become a crutch we rely on to help us through. However, when food is your only coping mechanism for dealing with these emotions, it can feel problematic. This webinar aims to help you understand your emotional eating origins, triggers, and potential tools that can help. Date: Thursday 19th November Time: 6-7:30pm (GMT) Cost: £20 full ..read more

“Who funded this research?” A legitimate question, to be sure, but it’s being used in a way that’s starting to really annoy me. When I post something about dairy (or animal products in general), processed food, or pesticides, or anything that can be deemed as ‘unnatural’ or ‘unhealthy’, this question gets asked. But when I post about fruit and veg, or bread, or fibre, or even pizza actually, this question is notoriously absent. This is confirmation bias. When something I’ve written agrees with what people believe, it’s blindly accepted as true. When something I write disagrees with someone’s e ..read more

Writing about celery, it turns out, is incredibly risky. The whole celery juice craze seems totally baffling to an outsider, and every healthcare professional and health writer I know has received endless requests asking ‘what’s the deal with celery juice’? To give a brief overview: there is a man who calls himself the Medical Medium. He says that drinking celery juice can cure you of all manner of health conditions. He has no medical or health qualifications whatsoever, and received these nuggets of wisdom from a spirit. It’s unclear whether the spirit has a medical degree. It would be easy t ..read more

Goodbye ‘Plantbased Pixie’, hello ‘Pixie Nutrition’! Well, kind of. You might have noticed that the blog hasn’t changed. In fact, all that’s really changed is my social media usernames. I’ve been wanting to make this change for a little while now, and it’s been a relief to finally take the plunge and go for it. But I feel like I owe you all a little explanation. There are several key reasons why the change: Firstly, ‘Plantbased Pixie’ is a username I created about 6 years ago, when I was very much a wellness wanker. I was eliminating all the food groups, eating all the superfoods, drinking the ..read more

“We don’t need carbs, so why are you advocating for eating them?” Good question. I think asking whether we ‘need’ carbs or not is the wrong question. As a nutritionist, I’m obviously aware of the human requirements for energy as well as the need for essential vitamins and minerals. However, to use the argument that we don’t need carbs to survive, so low-carb is the right diet to be on, isn’t helpful. There is no one food that we ‘need’ to survive. There are individual nutrients that are considered essential, but we can obtain these from a wide variety of sources. Calcium can come from dairy p ..read more

It’s here! The Wellness Rebel is out in the world, and all your pictures and comments so far have been so wonderful! If you’re not sure what it’s about, the book is a guide to sorting nutrition fact from fiction. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular nutrition myth that has thrived in particular thanks to the wellness industry and social media. I give you the science (i.e. the theory) and then themed recipes to put that into practice. I also share my own story of how I went from wellness wanker to wellness rebel, and encourage you all to become wellness rebels too! I’ve put a lot of ..read more

How often have you spotted the claim ‘Boosts the immune system’? Probably endless times over winter, and especially at the beginning of this year when flu season really hit hard. But what does that actually mean: boost the immune system? The misconception seems to be that the immune system is like a muscle that can be worked and always grown into something bigger and better. But it doesn’t quite work like that. A muscle is quite simple in comparison to the complexity of the immune system, with all its coordinated components. You don’t need to know much about the immune system to know that it’s ..read more

This is a paid advertorial with Tesco, but always all opinions remain my own. Finding someone to live with can be really hard. I’ve lived with some strange people as a student, so when I moved back to London after finishing uni I wanted to make sure I lived with someone I actually got on with – mainly someone who enjoyed food as much as me! I love sharing food. I love cooking for people and seeing people’s eyes light up when they try something new. Eating with someone is quite an intimate, often messy process, and is a brilliant and easy way to get to know someone: just ask people about their ..read more

Processed food gets a bad rep. So-called ‘ultraprocessed food’ gets an even worse one. To say that we don’t need to eliminate these foods is an unpopular opinion. So, naturally, I’m going to share my thoughts on it. How many processed foods can you spot? There is no current definition on what amount of processing makes a food ‘ultraprocessed’. At what point does a food move from the ‘processed’ to ‘ultraprocessed’ category? Ask anyone and you’ll likely get a different answer. And because there’s no official agreed-upon definition, it’s often used to mean ‘mass-produced’, ‘factory-made’, ‘low-c ..read more