Posts Categorized: News

Quinoa, sweet potato and pomegranate salad

Neema Savvides | Fertility Nutrition

A warming, comforting salad to take you through to the warmer spring months and the high protein content makes it a real winner for vegetarians. This dish has so many of my favourite things – I love all the different tastes and textures so it’s a real staple in my house. Serves 6 Ingredients: 2 large… Read more »

Welcome to the new site!

Neema Savvides | Fertility Nutrition

Hello and welcome! I am so excited to share with you my new website. It has been a whirlwind of new clients, ventures and opportunities over the last 3 years and I feel extremely fortunate to be have met with some extremely talented people, taking on new clients and expanding the business as a whole…. Read more »

Britain to introduce a ‘fat tax’ on healthy food

Neema Savvides | Fertility Nutrition

The talk of introducing a fat tax on unhealthy food is back in the news today, with the Guardian reporting about it – (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/may/16/fat-tax-unhealthy-food-effect?newsfeed=true). Obesity is at an all time high, with no signs of slowing down.  Given the rise of cancers, heart disease, diabetes and many other illnesses caused by obesity, the burden on… Read more »

Women who breastfeed their kids up to the ages of 6 or 7

Neema Savvides | Fertility Nutrition

This controversial picture on the cover of Time Magazine has sparked a huge debate.  The BBC covered it here. This is an interesting story, and a controversial one at that.  The breastfeeding debate is huge, and the extended breastfeeding debate is even bigger. Breast milk does provide the best nutrition for a baby.  It is… Read more »

School lunch shockers

Neema Savvides | Fertility Nutrition

News broke out this week of Martha Payne, a young students blog about her school dinners.  The full article can be read here. One of the pictures of Martha’s lunch featured on her blog http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/ What is shocking about this picture is not only the quantity of the food offered which is no where near enough… Read more »

McDonald’s making a ‘healthy’ fizzy drink for children which contains 12g sugar

Neema Savvides | Fertility Nutrition

Reports came out this week about McDonald’s producing a ‘healthy’ fizzy drink for kids which contains 12g of sugar (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2141631/McDonalds-launches-healthy-drink-children-contains-12-spoonfuls-sugar.html). I could go on and on about why people should not be eating there and especially why they should not let their kids be eating there but that’s another post altogether so let’s stick with the drink… Read more »